But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. We can put life and its hardships in a new perspective. I like to think of heaven as the place where values get inverted. Things that seem important here and now get flipped around, so they can be viewed from a different, better, more accurate perspective. God does have another angle on life, hard for me to see now.
Hardship does that.
It forces questions that might otherwise never occur to me in this life. The questions bring me to the Bible, where I find a new, higher viewpoint. A different angle on all I experience, both the good and the bad. We know a little of the final outcome of all that matters. And we can pick what we consider important, realizing what does and does not have real, lasting value.