To wait well in the New Testament sense is to live with eyes fixed on Jesus, hands busy with His work, hearts purified by His promise, and voices joining the Spirit’s cry: Come, Lord Jesus! This is the hope that steadies us in trials, binds us together in fellowship, drives us to holiness, and sends us into mission until the day our waiting ends in sight. 

The New Testament does not diminish that hope; it intensifies it. Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, not as a poetic idea or as a mystical concept, but as a coming reality. He referred to it as a day when the meek would inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5), when the righteous would shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Matthew 13:43), when the Son of Man would sit on His glorious throne. The apostles would judge the twelve tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28). This is not a metaphor. Jesus was describing the future as the Bible envisions it.  - Joel Richadson, Biblical Hope