Our Temporal Existence Hebrews 11:1

Hebrews
{11:1} Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Believing without tangible evidence.Hoping.
We tell people we have faith in them. When we say we have faith in someone we are telling them that we believe in them. What do we believe about them? We believe in the goodness of them. We believe that what they say is true. People can even have faith in bad people that they'll come through with their *bad* acts. They believe they'll come through, they have faith. They hope.
People lose faith when those they're believing in fail to prove trustworthy.
The thing with God is the big picture. The overall plan is always in affect. We can't separate God from His plan. We can't pick apart life and put it into our own level, our own life span. God is eternal, we are temporal with the potential for eternity.
People lose faith in God when they bring Him down to our temporal lives and pull Him from eternity. We say God has failed to prove trustworthy when our temporal existence ends up being horrific, painful, seemingly impossible to bear. God doesn't offer us in our temporal lives peace and ease, health, wealth, happiness. We bring Him down to our level and we accuse him of being unfaithful, untrustworthy, of going back on His promises when it is all untrue. He promises us eternity through faith, not eternity based on what we perceive as acts proving Him worthy of our faith here and not in our temporal existence.
We try to bring God down to our level because we stop thinking about eternity. We limit ourselves to today, tomorrow, a week, month,year, several years, our lifetime and it's average span. We compartmentalize our lives into phases. From about ten years on we are focused on the future we have- what will we do with our lives? Graduate High School, go to college, get a job, find a partner, start a family, plan for the family, plan for many years of existing and then plan for our death. Our lives have a beginning and an end and we have no control when either happens. Suddenly we just are and we know nothing before our own existence except through history, through what we are told. We exist and we don't know when our existence will end. We hope to have a long existence but in truth, we live under the shadow of death always. We will die, we just don't know when.
When we believe in God we are saying we believe in a life more meaningful than the one we are offered here and now. No matter how full the life is, or how empty, God offers us a life beyond that here and now. He offers us hope. When we grasp that hope we use faith to make it real to us and incorporate it into our lives.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for...the evidence of things not seen.
We can't bring God down to our level, we have to raise our hopes to Him. He has eternity and He offers it to us. Faith goes beyond our lives it has to or else 'this is as good as it gets'. We get glimpses of eternity but in the end-- we have to have faith to grasp it all.
Hebrews {11:1} Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.