“Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
O what afflictions Paul took pleasure in! What was the secret?
“While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen.”
Our connection is with unseen things: a risen Christ in glory filling the eye, the mind continually weighing the things of the Sanctuary above, with the things of time and sense down here, the believer can turn and trample on them, and combat all of the flesh and the devil, that would take the mind off to things seen.