For our present troubles are small

and won’t last very long.

Yet they produce for us a glory

that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now;

rather, we fix our gaze on things

that cannot be seen.

For the things we see now will soon be gone,

but the things we cannot see will last forever.

2 Corinthians  4:17-18