Now to the Lord, that makes us know
The wonders of his dying love,
Be humble honours paid below,
And strains of nobler praise above.

'Twas he that cleans'd our foulest sins,
And wash'd us in his richest blood;
'Tis he that makes us priests and kings,
And brings us rebels near to God.

To Jesus our atoning Priest,
To Jesus our superior King,
Be everlasting power confessed,
And every tongue his glory sing.

Behold, on flying clouds he comes;
And every eye shall see him move;
Though with our sins we pierc'd him once,
Now he displays his pardoning love.

The unbelieving world shall wail
While we rejoice to see the day;
Come, Lord; nor let thy promise fail,
Nor let thy chariots long delay
                Isaac Watts


......Thus we see the vast importance of being rightly instructed as to the nature of our hope.  When we know what we are hoping for, we are able to give an answer; yea, our lives answer.  A man’s life is always influenced by his genuine hopes.  If a man be an heir to an estate, his life is influenced by the hope of inheriting it; and if we knew more of the power of the Spirit as “the earnest of our inheritance,” instead of disputing about the time or manner of our Master’s arrival, we should, as “prisoners of hope,” be anxiously looking forth from our prison windows, and saying, “Why is His chariot so long in coming?  Why tarry the wheels of His chariot?”
     Oh! that all who have found a stronghold in the cross of Jesus may say more earnestly, “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.”                                              
                                                                                                                                       C. H. Mackintosh