Paul's perspective is that our present sufferings are not even worth holding up in comparison with the glories that will be revealed in us. Paul is not glossing over the enormous pain, physical and emotional, that comes with human existence. Instead, he is elevating the much more enormous glory to come. Paul experienced: hunger, thirst, danger, imprisonment, torture, and persecution. And yet, he says all of that suffering cannot compare to the glories that will be revealed at some future time to saved believers as God's heirs with Christ. Truly, those endless glories must be incomprehensibly wonderful, satisfying, and meaningful.
Nevertheless, without Christ, we could never participate in God's glory because of our sin. In Christ, as God's fully adopted heirs, we will fully experience His glory forever.
