In this fallen world, everyone experiences a mixture of both triumphs and tragedies. However, neither astonishing victories nor demoralizing defeats represent the end of the story.
As the author closes out chapter 11, he summarizes this truth: And all these, 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.
We too can do as they did: look into the future by faith and live faithful lives in the present.