Christianity is not about escapism nor about living in unreality. It faces up to the present, the reality about ourselves, the reality about our circumstances. It also faces up to the reality of the future, Therefore we live with confidence.
We live by faith and not by sight. As Hebrews 11 says, faith is the evidence and substance of things to come, I say again, it is not unreality. We know by faith what is going to happen. We would like everything to be completed now, but it is not. So our response in the present is to live to please Christ.
All of us will face judgement and have to give an account for our lives. The fact that we are forgiven freely by the cross does not mean our lives do not matter, it does not mean that it does not matter what we do. The whole of the Bible is clear that it matters how we live. If your theology leads you down a path that says it does not matter how we live then you up a gumtree and the sooner you see sense and come down it the better.
What we do matters. How we live matters.
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