But in his soul he could be satisfied knowing that God would make good on all His promises. So Abraham waited patiently for the truly valuable things. This can be a hard time to go through. This waiting for the promise. As in Abraham's story, many times it is our children and children's children who receive a greater measure of the fulfillment of God's promise than we do.
People talk about having an estate to pass on to their children.
I want to have a heritage of faith to pass on to my children. When we listen to our culture, we get the cart before the horse. My parents struggled, sacrificed, and lived on less in order to be faithful to God. They focused on the eternal and missed out on some of the temporary. But they passed on a heritage of faith.