Hope

Hope enters the heart, so to speak, as a physician or as a conqueror, to heal in the day of sorrow and disappointment, or to be the ascendant in the day of prosperity.
It is seen in the antediluvian saints, in the Genesis—fathers, in Joseph in Genesis 1; in Israel, in Exodus 12; in Moses, in Numbers 10:29; in David, in 1 Chronicles 29:15, in one or other of these.
The Lord had it as a conqueror in John 12:24, as a relief in Hebrews 12:2. We are called to it in each of these ways.
The Spirit forms it in the heart as necessarily as faith, Exodus 12:1, 7-11 Thessalonians 1:9-10, Romans 5:12.
Different objects it apprehends—rest after conflict (2 Thessalonians 1, 2 Timothy 4); a pure kingdom after a defiled world (2 Peter); Christ Himself (Luke 12:36, Matthew 25:4, 1 John 3:2-3); a harvest after a first-fruits (1 Corinthians 15).