In typical Puritan fashion, The Glory of Christ by John Owen is a bold statement that spiritual life without Christ is really no spiritual life at all. If your soul feels dry and lacks any substantial joy - grab this little book (which is anything but little in content) and meditate on the greatness of God our Savior.Quote from the book:
"A constant view of the glory of Christ will revive our souls and cause our spiritual lives to flourish and thrive. Our souls will be revived by the transforming power with which beholding Christ is always accompanied. This is what transforms us daily into the likeness of Christ. So let us live in constant contemplation of the glory of Chirst, and power will then flow from him to us, healing all our declensions, renewing a right spirit in us and enabling us to abound in all the duties that God requires of us.
Faith will fix our souls in Christ who will fill us with delight and satisfaction. This then, in heaven, is perfect blessedness, for it is caused by the eternal vision of the glory of God in Christ. So the more we behold the glory of Christ by faith now, the more spiritual and the more heavenly will be the state of our souls.
The reason why the spiritual life is our souls decays and withers is because we fill our minds full of other things, and these things weaken the power of grace. But when the mind is filled with thoughts of Christ and his glory, these things will be expelled (see Col. 3:1-5, Eph. 5:8)
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