Sunday we shall see from Exodus 17:8-16 that being a follower of Christ involves engaging in a battle. Charles Spurgeon helps orient us:
“The children of Israel were not under the power of Amalek — they were
free men; and so we are not under the power of sin any longer. The yoke
of sin has been broken by God’s grace from off our necks, and now we have
to fight not as slaves against a master, but as freemen against a foe. Moses
never said to the children of Israel while they were in Egypt, “Go, fight with
Pharaoh.” Not at all; it is God’s work to bring us out of Egypt and make
us his people, but when we are delivered from bondage, although it is God’s
work to help us, we must be active in our cause. Now that we are alive from
the dead we must wrestle with principalities and powers and spiritual
wickedness if we are to overcome.”

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Psalm 103:11-13

The gift of water, air, children, a spouse.  Health, walking, holding a baby, etc etc.  They are channels of adoration.

Clive Staples Lewis: “Pleasures are shafts of glory as it strikes our sensibility. . . . But aren’t

there bad, unlawful pleasures? Certainly there are. But in calling them

“bad pleasures” I take it we are using a kind of shorthand. We mean

“pleasures snatched by unlawful acts.” It is the stealing of the apples

that is bad, not the sweetness. The sweetness is still a beam from the

glory. . . . I have tried since . . . to make every pleasure into a channel of adoration.

I don’t mean simply by giving thanks for it. One

must of course give thanks, but I meant something different . . .

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, “How good of God to give me

this.” Adoration says, “What must be the quality of that Being whose

far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!” One’s mind runs

back up the sunbeam to the sun. . . . If this is Hedonism, it is also a

somewhat arduous discipline. But it is worth some labour.”