Martyred missionary Jim Elliot said it best:

. . .  "He is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

As God's children, you and I have been promised a future reward. As with Abraham and Moses of old, the decisions we make today will determine our rewards tomorrow. Abraham obeyed God because he "looked for a city" (Heb. 11:10). Moses forsook the treasures and pleasures of Egype because "he had respect unto the reccompense of the reward" (Heb. 11:26).

It was the same attitude of faith that carried our Lord Jesus through the agony of the cross. 

Hebrews 12:2 Jesus . . . who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame . . .

Don't live for what the world will promise you today. Live for what God has promised you in the future. Be a stranger and a pilgrim on this earth. Walk by faith, not by sight.

This world is not my home,

I'm just a passin' through.

My treasures are laid up

Somewhere beyond the blue . . .