Our entire hope is Jesus Christ. As the Apostle Paul says: "…by the commandment of God our Savior, and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope" (1 Tim. 1:1). We receive and will receive everything through him. Our Lord Himself teaches: "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son”" (John 14:13) Our hope is based on the sovereign grace of God, since it was given through Christ, as Scripture says: "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17).
But we also have our part to play! First, there is the following of God's will, that is, the commandments. Christ himself tells us: "He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him" (John 14: 21). Second, through the communion of the holy mysteries of the body and blood of Christ, through which Christ the Lord abides. “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him” (John 6:56); and “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you” (John 6: 53). And third, through persevering prayer, as the Apostle Paul teaches: "But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life" (Jude: 20-21).