Does faith mean we see the long term of our earthly life clearly?

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Does faith mean we see the long term of our earthly life clearly?
 
It can. I rather think it means we see the future of an eternal heaven awaiting us.
 
Faith lets us know what God wants from us in broad terms, and what we should avoid.

However, life can throw you some real curveballs, things you never saw coming. Tragedies. And that’s when you need to have faith that God is still in His Heaven, and you must continue on the straight and narrow path
 
No. Faith is believing what God has revealed based on the authority of the revealer. He has not revealed the future of each of our lives. What He has revealed, and what we do know by faith, is the eternal life He has promised us if we live our life according to His commandments.
 
“Theologians call faith a sure but obscure habit (habitus) of the soul;” obscure, because “it brings us to believe divinely revealed truths that transcend every natural light and infinitely exceed all human understanding. As a result, the excessive light of faith bestowed on a soul is darkness for it; a brighter light will eclipse and suppress a dimmer one.” “So the light of faith suppresses and overwhelms that of the intellect through its abundance. For the intellect, by its own power, extends only to natural knowledge.”1 It can meanwhile become capable of receiving supernatural knowledge when God wishes to raise it to do so. On its own the intellect can only gain knowledge in the natural way, that is, by means of the senses which present an object to it.

Stein, Edith. The Science of the Cross (The Collected Works of Edith Stein Vol. 6) (Kindle Location 1252). ICS Publications. Kindle Edition.
 
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