Isaiah 29:13 And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,”

How do you know the Lord? Is your knowledge of our Lord only by what a preacher or teacher has taught you? Isaiah warned us, and the warning is still valid today. If your only knowledge of the Lord are by what men say, you do not know the Lord as you should.

Relationships stem from the heart, not the head. If you have opened up your heart and let the Lord in, why do you look for Him anyplace other than within your own heart? Yes you need a mind to reason with, but reasoning isn’t relationship.

Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Desire the Lord in your heart. He is not in the hope of your mind.

Psalm 21:2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

If your heart’s desire is the Lord, you will get your heart’s desire.

It may be that the largest problem with mainstream religions today is that they love the commandments of men with their minds more than they love the Lord with the desires of their hearts. God does not want your good intentions, He wants your heart.

Institutional devotion is not the same as worshipping God.

John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Spirit and Truth reside in the hearts of those who love God.