Hope, to recall the famous mixed metaphor, is “the anchor within the veil” (Heb. 6:19). In offering us the one thing about the future we may trust, it allows us to act in the knowledge that, whatever is uncertain, the future holds the coming of the Son of Man. In that knowledge our purposes may be formed this side of the veil, as we seize an occasion to do something, however modest. Hope assures us that what we do in witness to God’s faithfulness will be worth doing, will endure before the throne of judgment.
