Have you considered how amazing it is that the Father has poured out the Holy Spirit into our hearts so that we can experience the love of Christ and be confident as we anticipate one day standing before God?
“and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Romans 5:5
Doug Moo comments on the confidence believers enjoy awaiting the day of judgment:
“The confidence we have for the day of judgment is not based only on our intellectual recognition of the fact of God’s love, or even only on the demonstration of God’s love on the cross . . . but on the inner, subjective certainty that God does love us . . . and it is this internal, subjective, yes, even emotional, sensation within the believer that God does indeed love us – – love expressed and made vital in real, concrete actions on our behalf – – that gives to us the assurance that ‘hope will not disappoint us.’”
