Does you hope for tomorrow affect your walk for today? 1 Timothy 4-6

1 Timothy 6:17 (NASBStr)

Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

We may have a miss conception in our Christian walk about the word, "hope."    Too many believers use the word like the world does.  Hope to some is that "someday" God is going to do something ... raise us from the dead and bring us into His kingdom.   In a limited way, that definition is true.   Christ becomes the power or the thing or the figure of hope.   The world has the same hope, however.  They believe that their riches, as stated above, will be the thing that, in the future, gives them hope ... raise them out of the ashes and bring them into A kingdom, of some sorts.   However, Christian hope is much more than just the end game.  Christian hope affects the future and the present.   Note the verses Paul writes Timothy just before the above lines, in which he addresses the rich.  And, note the implication about having hope in Christ, for today:

1 Timothy 6:13-16 (NASBStr)

I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time —He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

Paul is telling us that our hope has a causative on our life for today.   Note what John says, also, in his epistle: 

1 John 3:2-3 (NASBStr)

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Note the contrast between the two writings.  Paul says "no man has seen or can see" while John says, "we will see Him just as He is."   Paul is telling us that our hope, though unseen (that is the definition of hope) is still compelling us to live a holy life; while John is telling us that that hope of seeing Him like He is, should compel us to live a holy life.   Rejoicing in the hope of Christ's return is not just an "end" game.  It is for today and tomorrow.  It affects where I will spend eternity, yes, but it all affects how I live earthly.