[Dave]

Originally Posted by Igzy

Well, if you don't feel anything or just trust your mental appreciation of things with no emotional response then I think you eventually lose track of what it all means. It become theoretical. I mean, you seem to be basically saying that Christian activity with no emotional zest is a pretty good thing. I would say if you never or rarely or usually don't have any emotional zest for your faith then why not? Does nothing about it excite you? Have you grown bored with it? Is it never fresh? How's your worship? Do you ever get carried away? If not I think you are missing something. Now, I'm not judging, I'm just trying to make a point.

Your comment about not needing anything fresh because the old things will do kind of makes me wonder. Yes, God never changes, so yesterday's truths are fine for today. Yet, God is also ever new. He doesn't get old. So if there is not a sense of freshness, of something new about stuff you have in a sense known for a long time, then I think to some extent you've gotten a little stale. That's my experience anyway.

If you are just experiencing joy and getting a high and it is not resulting in works then I wonder about its reality. I would suggest that if you are not experiencing joy in your Christian experience then shelter the homeless, feed the poor, take care of the downtrodden. This will renew your spirit!
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
1 John 3:17-18
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
James 2:14-18
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.