Our hope includes seeing our loved ones again when Christ returns. They will astound us with their glory. It includes being glorified ourselves in the Great Revealing (Colossians 3:3-4). But our greatest hope is in the glory of God (Romans 5:2), for “we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:1-3). This is the beatific vision. Its glory causes us to catch our breath at the humility of God in Christ, who took human form (“the body of our lowliness,” Philippians 3:21 – literal) “for us and for our salvation.”