As I get into the Word of God, it begins to reveal God to me. And as that divine illumination takes place under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I then begin to see God for who He really is—not some caricature somebody has drawn to explain God to me. The great secret of the Christian life is to begin experiencing God as He desires me to experience Him. God’s greatest delight is to bring me into His presence…As I get to know God, I begin to experience aspects of God that whet my appetite for more of God. I can never have enough of God. A growing yearning to be near God begins to develop, and I begin to recognize that God is within me; and I want to experience this God who is within me. I yearn for a manifestation of the presence of God, a degree of fellowship with Him that goes beyond mere head knowledge. This is not something we can explain. If we could explain it to everybody’s satisfaction, it would not be God. God is much more than we can explain or boil down to human understanding. God can be experienced only in the heart, which creates the atmosphere of praise and worship and adoration.

The prevailing condition among Christians today, as I see it, is that there is a sense of God’s absence among us. Many believe in God. Many worship God and even sing about Him. But it is almost as if He is not there.

Delighting In God - A.W. Tozer