Very often (nearly always, I’m afraid) when I come to church my feelings are uppermost in my mind. This is natural. We are human, we are “selves”, and it takes no effort at all to feel. But worship is not a feeling. Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship “in spirit and in truth”. Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
From ‘Let me be a woman’ by Elisabeth Elliot, p5
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