Our outer life may look distressed, we live vicariously in Christ 2. But the inner life is believing and victorious. When we come face to face with Christ, when we believe, when we see the treasure for what it is, and the plan God intends for that treasure to be a blessing to our world, we will speak, we will not lose heart. This matter of looking at things unseen is the Hebrew writer's definition of faith. The unseen is the eternally real, the source of stability.
Affliction is momentary.
Overwhelming futility may overpower us if we look only on the outward, if we trust only physical, visible things. As the outer person is lost, so is heart. Paul learned a valuable lesson, reflected in Phil. I genuinely hope that lesson is yours. That you know who you are, in contrast to those everywhere about us, that you know who Christ is, that you see the gospel for the treasure it is, and that as a result your identity and your actions match.