What does it weigh?

Check out this list of personal traumas:
imprisoned wrongly
beaten time without number
often in danger of death
five times beaten with a lash 39 times
three times beaten with rods
once stoned
three times shipwrecked
spent a day and a night in the open sea
hardship and labor time and again
hungry and thirsty
cold from exposure
The above list belongs to Paul. Yet he said that his momentary light afflictions were nothing compared to the eternal weight of glory that was being produced in his life by all this suffering.
Pondering that thought yesterday, God showed me a balance scale, like they used to weigh the miners gold in the 1850's in California. On one side were the words, cancer, retirement adjustments and financial uncertainty. On the other side were the words promises, blessings,salvation and eternity. The latter outweighed the former.
God, give me the eyes of faith that Paul had.