Joy.

I am currently reading John Piper's book, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, and it is very thought provoking.

In a section that I read today, Piper writes that, "the very joy that Jesus would have in the presence of the Father is the joy he died for us to have." John 15:11 says - "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full," and John 17:13 says, "but now [Father] I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves."

The joy by which Christ endured the cross (Hebrews 12:2) is the joy that he freely gives to us through himself and his death and resurrection. By Christ's obedience unto death, he secured himself an everlasting joy for himself, and for US. Think about it.