The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
Pray along the lines of Scripture; learn to pray the Bible back to God. If you don’t know how to cry, then do some of the psalm’s cries. If you don’t know how to rejoice, then rejoice with the Psalms.
Joy is a choice. It’s a matter of attitude that stems from one’s confidence in God — that He is at work, that He is in full control, that He is in the midst of whatever has happened, is happening, or will happen.
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
The truth of the resurrection gives life to every other area of gospel truth. The resurrection is the pivot on which all of Christianity turns and without which none of the other truths would much matter. Without the resurrection, Christianity would be so much wishful thinking, taking its place alongside all other human philosophy and religious speculation.