It's the Lord's Day, and I began this day by reading a chapter of When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, a book that has been a tremendous help for me lately. The chapter I read is entitled, "The Fight for Joy Is a Fight to See"--and what I need to fight to see is the glory of Christ. These words in particular stuck out to me:

By seeing the glory of Christ in the gospel we are changed. In what way? Not first externally, but first internally. What is this internal change that comes from "beholding the glory of the Lord"?

It is the awakening of joy in Christ himself, and all that God is for us in him. It is the awakening of a new taste for spiritual reality centering on Christ. It is the capacity for a new sweetness and a new enjoyment of the glory of God in the Word of God. Therefore, nothing is more important for us in life than to "behold the glory of the Lord."

John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, p. 66