and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
"That attitude of expectation is the bloom, as it were, of the Christian character. Without it there is something lacking; the Christian who does not look upward and onward wants one mark of perfection." [Note: James Denney, The Epistles to the Thessalonians, p. 59.] 