Light affliction
II Corinthians 4:16-18 - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, (See James 4:14) worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Why do we struggle to SEE and then allow ourselves to be discouraged (troubled and distressed / perplexed and in despair? - II Corinthians 4:8,9)  when we DO see?  One reason may be that we care for our children!  Read I Thessalonians 2:1-13 to your children / teens!  Maybe even include I Corinthians 11:1-4.  Or are we being selfish?  Are we just being spoiled prideful Americans watching our fulness of bread and abundance of idleness disappearing and knowing we may become part of the poor and needy before the rapture rapts?

Satan wants to wear us down!
Daniel 7:25 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
But...
26: But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.  27: And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

I.  A Fallen World
Romans 8:19-23 - groan
Philippians 3:21 - someday soon

Genesis 3:17,18 - it's the way it is!
John 18:36 - not now
Romans 1 - the lost enjoy this wicked world
II Corinthians 4:4 - blinded

Romans 5-8 - Sin - still in us -

Apostasy; Laodicean; devices of the devil; god of this world, prince and power of the air, etc.

Are we possessed by our gee gaws?  Luke 8, I Timothy 6:9,10,17

II.  Bad Choices
Proverbs 14:12
Ignoring Proverbs!

Galatians 6:7-8 - reaping what you sowed in the flesh!
Seeing incorrectly - II Corinthians 4:16-18

III.  Wrongly Dividing
reading wrong mail, etc.
We should know what times we are approaching!  Matthew 24:6; getting worse out there, eh - rumours of war, etc. Mark 13:8 - not now, but getting closer!
We should know the differences in Jesus' two more comings, etc.
Subverted - II Timothy 2:14-17 - subvert - To overthrow from the foundation; to overturn; to ruin utterly.

IV.  Godly Living
II Timothy 3:12 - Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Not just "Godly doing," but "Godly living!"  (Paul, not the gospels)

The faithful endure hardness - II Timothy 2:1-4
Bear the temptations - don't let them trouble you!  Get into the Book!

We should be troubling them!
Acts 16:20 - And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
Acts 17:8 - And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

Paul had no rest - but was still comforted - II Corinthians 7:5-7 - For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.  Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;  And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
It was hard for them -  they despaired of life but they just learned to trust themselves less and God even more!  II Corinthians 1:8,9 - For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:  But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
Paul didn't let it bother him! - Galatians 6:17

Those that trouble us will get it all back eventually!
Galatians 1:7 - Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 5:10 - ...he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
II Thessalonians 1:6,7+ - Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;  And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, Etc.
II Thessalonians 2:1,2 -  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Problems and troubles are NOT meant to destroy us - they are NOT God's attempt to punish us or get even with us for our failures and sins; He has already dealt with that stuff at Calvary, etc.

Instead, they offer an opportunity to have the truth of God and the life of Christ come forth through our bodies of flesh to His glory!