Therefore, prepare your minds for action,{Literally, "gird up the loins of your mind"} be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

 (iv) There is the beatific vision. It was John's confidence that we shall see him as he is ( 1 John 3:2). "Now," said Paul, "we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face" ( 1 Corinthians 13:12). If the eye of faith endures, the day will come when it will be the eye of sight, and we shall see face to face and know even as we are known. 