Suffering awaits Peter’s readers (and Peter himself) in the immediate future (1 Peter 4:12–17). With the present words Peter is urging his readers to look beyond the suffering to the glory Jesus had promised (e.g., Matthew 25:21) and prayed for (e.g., John 17:24). Peter is confident that he himself will share this glory, as will all the chosen of God (1 Peter 1:4). His point is that the wonderful prize on the other side makes the present short-term suffering worth it. The revelation of this glory will occur, of course, on the Last Day when Christ comes to judge the living and the dead. This perspective is already encouraging, comforting, helpful to the elders Peter sought to “exhort.”