One real view

One real view of the glory of Christ, and of our own concern in it, will give us a full relief in this matter. For what are all the things of this life? What is the good or evil of them in comparison of an interest in this transcendent glory? When we have due apprehensions of this, when our minds are possessed with thoughts of it, when our affections reach out after its enjoyments, let pain, and sickness, and sorrows, and fears, and dangers, and death, say what they will, we shall have in readiness wherewith to combat with them and overcome them; and that on this consideration, that they are all outward, transitory, and passing away, whereas our minds are fixed on those things which are eternal, and filled with incomprehensible glory. (Owen, John. "The Glory of Christ." Glasgow: Christian Heritage. 2004. p30)

This then, is the thing that we must seek with all diligence: to see the glory of Christ.