The Apostle Paul's confident assertion in the previous passage that Love is the fulfillment of the Law, is to be integrated into our lives in light of the "present time." What time is that? The time between Jesus' establishment of the Church (and its birth at Pentecost) and his promised return to establish his kingdom (the End Times). We live in an intermediate stage of unknown length. Jesus could return today, or it could be 10,000 years from now.
So, what do we do with that uncertain certainty? We live now in a way that way that we wouldn't be ashamed of if Jesus does indeed return in our lifetime. We walk in the light, not the darkness, and imitate Jesus, while at the same time rejecting the temptation to sin.
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