Not all believers receive good things promised during their lives on earth. But they keep their faith, because they believe in God's promise of the good things to come.

"It was in faith that all these persons died. They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth. Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own. They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return.

Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them."

(Hebrews 11.13-16 GNB)

Dear God,
please help me keep my confidence in your promise
of the good things to come