Grasping the tension of our christian existence is crucial to a mature, christian life - there is no other way around it. Jesus taught us that his kingdom had arrived, and that it was still a way off. We are old man flesh, being changed by the spirit, more and more into the new AND we are already new creations. Jesus knows who we are and where we live! When Paul first arrived in Corinth, we see how badly he needed reminding of this too. The Now/Not Yet paradigm isn’t just a piece of theology, it will pervade every aspect of our personhood if we allow it to.