Father;” and in many other places and ways the apostle uses this word “hope.” The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is our hope: we are looking for Him to return; we are looking for Him to transform these bodies of our humiliation and make them like unto His glorious body. Our hope is to see Him as He is and to become like Him. What a blessed hope it is! Paul addresses himself to Timothy and speaks of him as “my own son.” He really uses the more intimate term in the original, “my own child in the faith.”