Various · Ephesians 4.

3. The hope of our calling is also one. Without distinction in our sins, we are equals also in blessing, through the grace that saves us. By the same word of truth we are called of God unto the fellowship of His Son. The Gentile who was once without hope, and the Jew who hoped in vain, joy now together in the hope of glory, as partakers of the righteousness of God. Christ is Himself the Hope of our calling. Its realization will be at the moment of His glorious appearing. Salvation also is another name for our hope. We are saved by hope. Receiving already the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls, we still wait to inherit salvation in the day when the Saviour whom we look for shall appear (1 Peter 1:9; Heb. 1:14; Phil. 3:20, 22). It is a hope which makes not ashamed. It purifies the heart in which it dwells. May we abound in it by the power of the Holy Ghost! (Rom. 15:13).