Vos: we have a prelibation of our "impending salvation" every day

"(There is a) close nexus between present and future...salvation. ...Without clear distinction present enjoyment and joyful anticipation of the final deliverance mingle. The sense of salvation was never entirely de-eschatologized. Even the most practical religious consciousness found it impossible to think of the one aspect without more or less clearly remembering the other. The mind of the early Christian reveals a constant oscillation from the one pole to the other. Only the multitudinousness of concerns with the world that is, has somewhat deflected the religious interest beyond. The movement of thought and the movement of aspiration have both somewhat changed their original point of departure and their habitual direction. Believers followed the chronological order, which after all appears so largely the normal one to time-circumscribed minds. Paul and his converts by a sort of reversion thought themselves saved as in the future so in the present. Precisely because the two states of consciousness, that of being destined to an impending salvation, and that of having the prelibation (taste beforehand; crb) of the same each day, so naturally coalesced, the necessity for sharp distinction was less strongly felt.

"Hence there are a number of passages, which it is easy to construe as referring to the simple sense of possession of the present, whilst in all probability the mixture of feeling just referred to is voiced in them, and in consequence half their shade of significance is obscured through an overlaying with our own color of piety. Fortunately statements are not lacking which embody the pure futuristic manner of conceiving the thing in its original force. According to Rom. 5:9,10, after and because being justified by Christ’s blood, the readers shall be saved from the wrath of the judgment through Him, and that particularly through his (resurrection-) life. The Christian is saved “by hope”, Romans 8:24,25; here the past tense (Aorist) joined to the idea of “hope” strikingly portrays the mixed mental attitude towards the idea of salvation; how strongly present and active the ingredient of hope is may be felt from the appended remark: “hope that is seen is not hope,” a remark which might seem to deny, if not explicitly the pre-potency, at least the visual actuality of salvation. The strongest passage is Rom. 13:11: “for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.” -- Geerhardus Vos, "The Pauline Eschatology", pp. 51,52