Puritan, Thomas Brooks, provides countless thoughts to encourage us struggling believers who at times doubt in our assurance, in his book, Heaven on Earth. One of his pages reminds us of the wellspring of hope we have - in Hope.

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27

When Alexander went upon a hopeful expedition, he gave away his gold; and when he was asked what he kept for himself, he answered, Spem majorum et meliorum, the hope of greater and better things.

So a Christian will part with anything rather than with his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory. Souls that are big in hope, will not be long without sweet assurance. God loves not to see the hoping should go always up and down sighing and morning for want of a good word from heaven, for want of possessing what it hopes in time to enjoy. Hold out hope and patience "a little longer, and he that hath promised to come, will come, and will not tarry" (Hebrews 10:37).