God deliberately built a world in which the righteous must live by faith, because faith is your perception and your perception becomes your reality. Everything you buy or achieve grows familiar and the newness wears off, but God is the one thing that stays new every day and never wears off. That is why the joy of the Lord is the only joy that remains, when every other joy fades. So believe what God has said instead of letting what you see interpret it, because only good will happen to those who keep His word.