"It's quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply." C. S. Lewis

The word “ultimately” is often used when we speak of the way God sometimes answers our prayers. We ask Him to heal someone and sometimes they die. Our answer is that He ultimately healed them when they got to Heaven. When this happens we sort of feel short changed because we were expecting God to heal them in the here and now. Of course our Father did not short change us at all. He gave more than we asked, not less. Our problem is that we have trained ourselves to focus on temporal matters and God is training us to focus on eternal ones. 

“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Jesus Conversations Within” ts 4/14/2020