desire must learn to look forward to Christ as though he had already come. In Christ, I can both feel desire and be at peace. I can be alive and enter the rest of the Lord. I can live both the present and the future. When I live my desires as types of Christ, there is a perfect calm at the heart of those desires, a deep stillness at the center of my striving. This stillness isn’t afraid and it isn’t guilty. It isn’t scared about how things will turn out and it isn’t ashamed about what I lack. By fulfilling the law, Christ forever changes my relationship to the law. And by fulfilling desire,
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