Hebrews 11:39-40 (KJV) Some Better Thing

Hebrews 11:39-40 (KJV)
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

It occurs to me what a selfless act it was on the part of these believers to live in faith. 

They lived by faith and obtained a good report
A life of faith does that. I confess that sometimes, as was the case in their day, that “good report” was before God and not man. Still, they obtained it. 

They accepted a good report rather than the promises
We all desire to receive the promises of God, do we not? These believers were satisfied to receive a good report rather than God’s promises. 

They accepted that there awaited something better than those promises
That was to be perfected; but more, to be perfected with us. 

The most unselfish thing we can do is to live a good testimony in difficult times so that others might come to be saved and then, later, perfected with us. 

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Hebrews 11:39-40 (KJV) Some Better Thing

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