From the Moment to the Life
The NOW is the sustained reality of a life lived in Christ
There is a question that the honest person asks after they have claimed the now.
Now what?
Not as a theological inquiry. As a practical one. The acceptance has been made. The first-person claim on the first-person promise has been articulated. The repentance was genuine. The belief is real. The forgiveness has been accepted. And then the person wakes up the next morning and the world is still the same world it was before, with the same pressures and the same temptations and the same interior patterns that existed prior to the transaction. What has actually changed? And how does what has changed connect to what needs to keep changing?
This is where the two halves of the picture belong together. The now of salvation is not the end of the story. It is the beginning of a life that is being lived on different terms than the life before it. And the terms it is being lived on are the terms of an ongoing dependence on the same power that made the initial transaction possible.
Romans 8:1 describes the new position: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus” (NKJV). The now in that verse is not the now of a single moment. It is the now of an ongoing reality, the present tense of a position that belongs to the person who is in Christ. Not who was in Christ at the moment of their conversion. Who is in Christ, presently, continuously. The absence of condemnation is not a past event that the person is now living in the afterglow of. It is the present condition of the person who maintains the connection.
And the maintaining of the connection is exactly what the praying and believing and claiming the power in the moment of trial is about. The person who repented and believed and accepted is now the person who prays when temptation arrives, who believes that the power is available for the present moment and not only the initiating one, who claims that power specifically and actively rather than assuming it is operating independently of their engagement with it. The transaction that began with the now of acceptance continues in the now of the ongoing cooperative dependence.
Think about what Galatians 2:20 is actually describing from the inside: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (NKJV). The now I live is present tense. The by faith is the ongoing mechanism. Not the memory of a past faith that launched a life which now runs on its own momentum. A present faith, continuously exercised, in every ordinary moment of an ordinary day, through which the life is continuously being lived in connection with the One who is the source of the life’s overcoming character. The life Paul describes is not the life of a person who had an encounter once and is now managing on the basis of that encounter. It is the life of a person who is in the encounter continuously, because the arrangement was never designed to be anything other than continuous.
The sinner who accepted forgiveness and the overcomer who cannot be overcome are not two different people at two different stages. They are the same person in the same moment, because the forgiveness that was accepted and the power that makes overcoming possible are both available in the same transaction and are both sustained by the same ongoing connection. The repentance, the belief, the acceptance, the prayer, the claiming of power in the moment of trial, these are not sequential phases that the person moves through and then completes. They are the continuous practices of a person who is living in Christ rather than simply having once visited Christ. And a person living in Christ is a person in whom the arrangement is always active, always available, and never dependent on what they managed to produce on their own before arriving at the moment they need it.
The now does not expire. It keeps renewing. And the person who keeps returning to it, who keeps bringing the honest assessment of their current condition to the provision that was designed for exactly that condition, is the person the text describes as one who lays hold of the divine nature and, in that laying hold, cannot be overcome.
That is not an aspiration for a future version of the person. It is the description of the person who is genuinely in the arrangement right now. The arrangement is available in the present moment, to the person in their present condition, without the prerequisite of having already mastered what the arrangement was designed to help them with.
Which is exactly where this whole conversation began.
Focus Verse: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” — Romans 8:1 (NKJV)
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