Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
We always have hope. That hope may seem very slim or even non-existent at times, but it is always there.
God made this hope real when He allowed Jesus, His Son, to die for our sins and make that hope very real.
We live in that hope; the goodness of God came through the promise Christ gave to us.
We do indeed live amongst the living.