The Blessed Hope

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1906

THE second coming of our Lord in power and great glory, bringing his reward with him, is fittingly designated as “that blessed hope.” It is this hope which ministers comfort in the trying hour, and turns apparent defeat into victory. It is this hope which enables the believer to forego the attractions of the world,—wealth, honor, power,—“choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.” It is this hope which sustains the repentant and believing sinner when the wasting physical frame is racked with pain, and death, “the last enemy,” stalks into the chamber to claim his victim. The blessed hope of the resurrection and the triumph over death, the blessed hope of seeing our Redeemer face to face, the blessed hope of a welcome to the city of God, the blessed hope of life unending and free from sin on the earth made new—who can estimate the value of such a hope as this? “Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” Blessed hope!