2 Corinthians 4:17 — “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”
C. S. Lewis, in his book “The Weight of Glory” (1941) writes the following: “To please God . . . to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness . . . to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son — it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”
I don’t know that I have ever heard another believer say that they aspire to be “a real ingredient in the divine happiness.” And I think that is so because we just have not been taught to think in terms of God treasuring us. The concept that God loves us has not been sufficiently thought through — it seems to me — to where we know that in having created us for himself, God established in himself a room in his heart, so to speak, for each of us. And the surprising delight in it is that we alone can occupy it. We stand to bring him a measure of joy he can find nowhere else in all that he’s created. To be able to bring this happiness to him is not only an unspeakable joy for us, but an unimaginable honor.
So when you look up to the Lord, pause to let it sink in that in bringing yourself to him you are being to him a actual, real ingredient in his happiness.
