We Are Far Too Easily Pleased

I'm slowly reading through John Piper's "When I Don't Desire God - How to Fight for Joy" for the second time in the last couple months. The points he makes are something I really want to get my arms around. He states "Fighting against all alien joy shows that we know the infinite worth of God." I guess it goes back to the concept of what you really have to work hard to get or earn is what you really end up taking pride in and displaying with a sense of satisfaction.
When it comes to the Christian life we are very low maintenance. We are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. I guess the tendency is to think that if it takes work than it takes the appeal away. It is somehow less genuine or at least less romantic. We need to re-adjust our thinking. I don't think the "working out our salvation" is so much an offensive action as much as a defensive. We need to guard and protect it. As Piper puts so clearly, "Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ." 2 Corinthians 4:4 says, "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." The sad reality of it all is that this happens to believers as well. But I'm convinced they'll be back. "Oh Love, that will not let me go..."