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There is nothing that fills life with such joy and rest as expectation! It is the "beyond" of human history, and no landscape is beautiful without perspective. David's light was dim, but there was a "beyond" in his life. So with Isaiah. But it was Christ that most of all kindled this expectation. Now, concerning it, note —

I. IT WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

II. IT WILL NOT BE ALTOGETHER DEFINED.

III. IT WILL NOT INJURE DUTY. Secularists say it will and does. But what would the present life become were there no expectation of a future?

IV. IT WILL NOT DIE OUT. Man cannot else live. We have in Christ the earnest of it.

(W. M. Statham.)

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KJV: My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

WEB: My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.