Faith is only as hard as we make it.
Every human being is condemned to the Lake of Fire and eternal damnation, but we all have the opportunity for salvation through faith in Christ and what He provided on the Cross. Condemnation precedes salvation. His condemnation was a perfect decision.
Judgment of all human sin happened at the Cross. Forgiveness, at the moment when we face Him and confess our sins to Him through faith in Christ’s atonement on the Cross. When that occurs, He is free in His volition and integrity to give us a regenerated spirit.
Our faith in Him isn’t hard. It’s the simplest thing possible, but only becomes as difficult as we make it.
We’d all be lost along with the Evil One, suffering in the hell that was originally created for him and his demons, if God hadn’t provided a way of redemption and escape for us. It was His gracious desire to extend this possibility to mankind.
Without redemption, we couldn’t even want to live in heaven. We would suffocate on its purity and be aliens in nature to it. We would sooner want to be in hell. In the lone account the gospels give of a person in Hades, that person isn’t begging to get out. That person is begging to bring someone else in to serve him. He wants to be a master, not a servant.
A servant’s love for God is evidence of the heavenly transformation that God bestows upon those who freely accept His gift through believing.