Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. 

‘Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.’ Hope, when delayed in its realization, sickens the heart, but when it is realized it comforts and invigorates body and soul.

1Corinthians 15:19 warns that we shouldn’t only have hope in Christ for this life alone, for then we are most miserable because we trust God only for earthly things and blessings instead of Godly things and eternal life.

Eight Christian hopes: Salvation (Rom. 8:20-25; 15:4, 13; 1Thess. 5:8; 2Thess. 2:16; 1Pet. 1:1-25). Righteousness (Gal. 5:5). God’s calling (Eph. 1:18; 4:4). Eternal inheritance (Col. 1:5; Eph. 1:11-18; Heb. 9:15; 1Pet. 1:4). God’s glory (Rom. 5:1-5; Col. 1:27). Resurrection (Acts 23:6; 24:15; 1Thess. 4:13; Tit. 2:13; 1Jn. 3:3). Eternal life (1Cor. 13:13; 15:19; Eph. 2:12; Col. 1:23; Tit. 1:2; 3:7; Heb. 3:6; 6:11, 18, 19; 7:19; 1Pet. 1:3-13). Converts safe in heaven (1Thess. 2:19).

‘The heart sick’ – Three examples of heartsickness: Abraham (Gen. 15:2-3); David (Ps. 42:1-3) and the disciples (Luke 24:17, 21).