Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
As the writer is making his way through the "Hall of Faith", discussing Adam, Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham, he pauses to make the above statement. Stopping here with Abraham, "the Father of Faith," it is as if he is saying: "Notice that all of these men never saw the fullness of what was promised in this life." As a matter of fact, as we go through the list some of them not only faced horrible deaths in this life; they did not even have their names remembered. Faith is fully trusting in God's plan for our life and for our eternal life. That is something all of these "heroes" of the faith had in common: they believed in the goodness and greatness of God, and that He had a wonderful plan for their future they could not wait to see.
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