Thousands of people ruin their religious experience by forming fictitious and abnormal notions of advanced experiences. They stretch and pray; strain after some unique, dazzling monstrosity of spiritual life, utterly outside of the mind that was in Jesus; and the devil is ever looking out to gratify such unscriptural desires with counterfeits of grace. They lose their dove-like simplicity, and are soon tangled up with all sorts of absurdities. The Bible reveals to us simplicity of desire—“Thy face, Lord, will I seek;” simplicity of will—“This one thing I do;” simplicity of motive—“Do all to the glory of God;” simplicity of guidance—“Lead me in a plain path,” because the enemy is on the complex path. Let us ever seek a Jesus-like simplicity, not only in our experience, but also in work for Him; never attempting startling and brilliant things; never wittingly drawing notice to ourselves; never overtaxing ourselves with huge enterprises; never parading the feats we have done, or the extra things we are going to do. 

Soul Food, Being Chapters On The Inner Life - G.D. Watson