Hope is the spiritual ability to imagine a better future Jesus is the source of enduring hope 1 Thessalonians 4:13 – But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. Christians have the capacity to grieve and hope simultaneously 1 Thessalonians 4:14 – For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Because of Christ’s resurrection, Christians will experience a resurrection 1 Thessalonians 4:15 – For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 – For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. The return of Christ will be both audible and visible Humans want a future calendar; God wants a daily relationship 1 Thessalonians 4:17 – Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:18 – Therefore encourage one another with these words.