"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." (2 Corinthians 4:17)
Now consider what Paul endured and considered LIGHT afflictions...
“…five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep…many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.” (2 Corinthians 4:24-27)
As bad as that was for Paul, he felt his suffering to be light when compared to the glory that awaited him after his resurrection.
"For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection." (Romans 6:5)
"...our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who...will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body." (Philippians 3:20-21)
"...as it is written: What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived -- the things God has prepared for those who love him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)
Our problems are real and unpleasant, but they are light when compared to our destiny.
"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord." (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)
"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away...He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21:1, 4)