To be caught up with Christ, in Christ, is to be filled with a love not only powerful enough to move the sun and stars but powerful enough to love that person we would otherwise despise. It is to love the kingdom of God more than the kingdoms of this world. It is to count all human empires as dirt, all our petty platforms and performances as dung.
To be caught up in Christ is to be enraptured by him, to be beholden to him, to be taken by him, to be---as seventeenth-century poet John Donne puts it---ravished by him.
Not just in the sky and on some future day.
But here.
And now.
Just imagine it.
The Evangelical Imagination
by Karen Swallow Prior
