the significance of being "already" and "not yet"

All this talk of what it means to be a holy church, and I forget to mention two reasonable applications of the fact that we are "already" holy and "not yet" holy! As it pertains to the fact that we're "already" holy, I think that asks us to expect more from one another. Our flesh (in the deceitful sense), our pride of life--all those things we're called to renounce--notwithstanding, that the Spirit dwells within gives us good reason to have confidence in the possibility of our sinning less. So lest you throw your hands up in holy exasperation, resigning yourself to the notion that no good thing can emerge from the human soul, think again. Being already Holy speaks to our potential for expressing that holiness.

Now as for our being "not yet" Holy, I think that addresses our reactions to the presence of unholiness. In other words, when we encounter what appears to be the absence of holiness in one another, we may be tempted to write one another off, or even to write the church off as a place "full of hypocrites" (the cliche so many use to justify their absence from the Church community). But the other's being "not yet" holy should only be a reminder that we, too, are in the same struggle. It's within that "not yet" community that we are stretched into reflecting grace back toward those who wrong us, and persevering in love for the community that, while imperfect (and often exasperating), is precisely what God must do (and does) for our sakes.

thoughts?