Weightless Trifle

On the soapbox. . .

Okay, so as I was preparing to teach SS yesterday, I came across some information that still has me amazed.
The "lesson" was on 2 Corinthians 4:7-18.
As I was reading and studying on vs. 17 I learned something that still shocks me.
"For momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison."
The greek for "light" is the equivalent of "weightless trifle." A weightless trifle? REALLY??
In chapter 11 we read this:
"Are they servants of Christ?--I speak as if insane--I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.
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.
I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;
I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches."

Doesn't sound like a "weightless trifle" to me. In Colossians Paul talks about how we as believers fill up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ-the world still wants to crucify Him and we take the brunt of that. And Paul took it in such an extreme way that most could not have withstood. I couldn't have. But I want to be like Paul-for my life to scream that "to live is Christ, to die is so much gain."