“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In Your great mercy You have given me new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade - kept in heaven for me, who through faith am shielded by Your power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 

In this, I greatly rejoice, though now for a little while I may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that my my faith - of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire - may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when You are revealed. 

Though I have not seen you, I love you; and even though I do not see you now, I believe in you and am filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for I am receiving the goal of my faith, the salvation of my soul.” 

- from I Peter 1:3-9