2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NASB95
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. [17] For momentary, light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, [18] while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
What you contemplate is what you accumulate. God uses the tribulation of living in this fallen world to move us from glory to glory. Even if He isn’t the cause of every tribulation, He doesn’t waste anything. Breakthrough’s usually happen in the context of adversity, and it’s in the midst of storms that we learn to walk on water. Our immersion in God’s manifest presence and nature (glory) accumulates over time, but the accumulation generally only happens as we fix our eyes on Him in childlike faith and adoration. This life of Christ consciousness is walked out in the public arena of our daily lives, but is cultivated in secret place of our hidden history with the Lord where beholding the eternal becomes a holy obsession.