If you want to get closer to God, you will have to seek that closeness yourself.  Today, most lost people are seeking signs for God to prove His existence and the Modern Christians are seeking wisdom to prove their mind is Christ's mind - as the Scriptures say the Jews and Greeks do.  Unfortunately, it also appears that the Bible Believers are now seeking both signs and wisdom these days instead of just worshipping God as the Scriptures direct us to do.  We want to SEE God do His work before they jump in with faith and they want to LEARN the Book while they continue to ignore the obvious - the WALK!

In 1961, A.W. Tozer called for a return to astonishment and wonder at the majesty of God.  He said, "The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody.  He (God) manages to stay pretty much within the constitution... very well-behaved, very denominational and very much one of us."

Tozer said that we have almost everything except the spirit of true worship.  He defined worship as a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe, astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of the unspeakable Majesty.  He said, "We're here to be worshippers first and workers only second...  Out of enraptured, admiring, adoring souls God does His work.  The work done by a worshipper will have eternity in it."

"We're too familiar with God.  That is why I do not believe in these half-converted cowboys who call God The Man Upstairs."

"The church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men.   A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error.

"True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart."

"God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him."

"For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions and service to society to neglect of the very source of its power - worship!"

"Worship is pure adoration, the lifting up of the redeemed spirit toward God in contemplation of His holy perfection."

Brother Smith also says in his book on worship, "If not missing altogether, pure worship has certainly diminished greatly in the present Laodicean Church Age of ease and convenience.  It seems there is little time or thought for the sincere worship of the living God.  It seems that we have, indeed, lost the wonder of our wonderful God."

The great hero of many baptist baptists, Charles Spurgeon said, "Many may be met with who know God, but never glorify him as God, because they never adore him nor do they worship him with the love of their hearts.  They go to church or to some place of worship regularly and sing psalms and hymns, and they may even have family time at home; but their heart has never adored the living God with living love.

Their worship has a name to live, but it is dead.  They present to the Lord all the eternal harvest of worship, but the corn is gone, only the straw and the husk are there.  And what is the value of your husky prayers?  Your prayers without a kernel, made up of the straw of words, and the chaff of formality?  What is the value of professions of loyalty from a rebel?  What is the worth of friendship to God when your heart is at enmity against him?  Is it not a mockery to God to present to him a sacrifice "where not the heart is found?

When the Lord has to say, 'They come as my people, and they sit as my people, and they sing as my people, but their heart is far from me, can he take any pleasure in them?  May not God thus complain of many?

Oh, let it not be so with you!  I know that there are some here against whom that charge would lie if we preferred it - that they know God, but they do not glorify him as God, for they do not love him.  The name and service of God are much on their tongues, but they do not delight in him, they do not hunger and thirst after him, they do not find prayer and praise to be their very element, but such service as they render is merely lip-service, the unwilling homage of bond-slaves, and not the delighted service of those whoa re the children of God.

Oh, my brethren, if we accept Jehovah as the living God, let us give him the utmost love of our souls.  Will you call a man a brother and then treat him like a dog?  Dare you call God your God and then act towards him as though he were not worthy of a thought?  With what joy does David cry, ' I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds!  This is the kind of spirit with which to deal with the Lord.  Oh, to rejoice in God all the day, and to make him our exceeding joy!  Thus, and thus only, do we glorify him as God.  Without the fire of love, no incense will ever rise from the censor of praise.  If we do not delight in God, we do not fitly adore God.