What should a Christian be expecting? Grace, as the complement and completion of grace already received: the crowning glories of God's undeserved and unmerited goodness - the incorruptible inheritance received, perfected salvation enjoyed, total vindication granted, and incomparable glory bestowed.
When shall we receive it? Grace is not a distinct commodity, but is bound up in Jesus, and this grace is being brought to us at Christ Jesus' revelation. Our expectation is connected with the coming of Christ in glory. All the grace we anticipate is in and with him, and our blessings are entirely tied up in the person of Jesus.
What should be out attitude? A settled and vigorous frame of spirit that rests entirely in God's promised grace in the risen, reigning, returning Christ the Lord. The command to rest our hope fully in this grace being brought to us at Christ's unveiling is a call to a fixed perspective, a complete dependence, a certain assurance, a joyful expectation, a constant encouragement, and should issue in a childlike obedience. Christ is coming, and we should live in the light of it.
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