When I accept Christ as my master, I die early and time’s polarity gets reversed. Rather than always being attracted to the future, time becomes full and the present becomes magnetic. Drawn by the pull of the present into the thick of life, I’m resurrected early. But when I’m absorbed in caring for this present world, time doesn’t go away. Goals don’t go away. Desires don’t go away. The future doesn’t go away. The law doesn’t go away. They all remain in play. In the present, I care for time, I don’t escape it. But now, rather than being idols, all these things become types. I still have goals,
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