If we wanted to stay conformed to this world, then we should see and evaluate everything, including God himself, through ourselves — based on how he (or she, or it) benefits, affirms, and highlights us. But if we want to resist being conformed to this world, and to renew our minds, adapting our wills instead to God’s will, we will not think so highly of ourselves. We’ll begin to see how small we are, and strive to make our tiny, flawed, forgettable existence highlight the massive, flawless, and eternal glory of God. And we will be happier before his glory than we ever were pursuing our own.