It becomes your part and your share in the cross of Christ. The good life looks different in the light of Jesus. Instead of being something to strain for, it becomes something which you take up gladly because you are drawn to it by His inimitable, good life. God looks different. Instead of being a kind of cold, abstract principle that you never get anywhere near, God becomes a reality that is warm and intimate and closely tied up with your own life, nearer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet, a power that dwells in you, that knows you, that loves you.
Death looks different.
Instead of being the end and final curtain of a man's life it becomes the last great adventure on this side of the unknown. I don't know how to describe it in any other words, but I can promise you who may be sincerely reaching out for this joy which you know you do not have and which you want, that once you begin looking at life in the light of Jesus the whole world, its valleys and its heights, its pains and its joys, will look different. This, then, is my invitation. It is extended to all of you in the name of Christ. Enter thou into the joy of the Lord.