Enlighten our eyes to know the hope that belongs to your calling

"May the eyes of [your] hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones,"  (Ephesians 1: 18)

The Holy Spirit reveals to us what God is doing in our life.  John Gill writes that those who had tasted the Spirit had begun to taste the life of the future world that God has prepared for His people.  The saints are saints because they had this experience.  The martyrs laid down their lives for Christ because they were convinced that they were exchanging their lives for something much better.