Comparing What?

I have been studying the book of Romans lately and have really been chewing on Romans 8:18.  It basically says that, "our present sufferings are not worthy to compare with the glory that God shall reveal in us."  (It should be noted that this is my own paraphrase pulled from other translations and the like).  Anyhow, the part that keeps leaving me in awe of God is the "shall" as in it shall happen and God is going to see to it...But there is a sense of “so long as I do my part,” going on here.  It is the “not worthy to compare” part that makes a mess of doing life my way.  Perhaps you can relate.  We tend to go away from our world when we think about suffering, things like famine, war and abject poverty.  These are things out there but not in here—in my mind, my heart and my direct sphere of influence.  The "sufferings" that the author refers to are also the things that we will suffer as part of keeping our eyes on Jesus.  These “sufferings” are things that will cause us to become more a part of the cause of Christ and less a part of the cause of “me.”  So here are a few thoughts that this verse has left me with.

• Becoming a Christ-follower continually asks us to surrender the items of habit and flesh that limit His Lordship in our lives keep and keep us from being more a part of His cause.
• How can God reveal much if any of Himself (as He so desires) when we are already filling that "God spot” with our own choices? 
• When you and I compare our “my way” of doing things to “His way,” we are demanding that we be God.