What does the believer wait for? It is not for the appearing of the Lord as Judge on the great white throne, but for His coming to claim His redeemed ones. The believer waits for that moment when he shall be taken up to be with the Lord Jesus. God's first mark of approbation for His Son's work on the cross was that He should not be alone in glory, but that He should have a people comprising His bride, the Lamb's wife, gathered around Himself for eternity.
Until that glorious day when He comes for His bride, He would have a people down here who can look up to Him where He is now at the Father's right hand, and know the character of His love for them. The light of His glory is enshrined and reflected in them; indeed, He is in them (John 17:2323I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)).
This, then, is our comfort as believers, as those who can say, "Christ loves me, He is going to glorify me, and I am waiting for Him." We are a people who have passed off the ground of the first Adam to a new standing, where we are not only washed and forgiven, but from where we can now look forward to His soon return for us.