Earnest expectation means an intense, anxious and persistent expectation as in Romans 8:19, where creation waits for the children of God to be revealed. This is the hope we hold to in telling others the Great News - that no matter what we go through, everyone will see Christ above all others and everything imaginable... And this whether we live or die, suffer or have it easy. It is about Him to live for (and others as the 2nd greatest commandment says) not our comfort or security.
Philippians 1:19-20
19 For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
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