1 Thessalonians 1:10

10. Wait Christian life rests not in the present, but looks forward and upward. It expects, hopes, and waits. Forward, for it has an endless future; upward, for its great future event is the coming of Christ through the parting skies. That is the most solemn of all events, for it is the day of retributive doom; and the most glorious of all events, for it is the commencement day of the Christian’s everlasting joy. Paul’s preaching of this great event thrilled the Thessalonians through and through. Christians of this age have, necessarily, through lapse of time, a less sensuous and nervous impression of the “ideal presence” of the judgment throne; but should possess a no less vivid realization of a fact which, in its own time, will be present.