But we also need to look within ourselves. Much of what people do is simply a matter of going through the motions. They do what other people expect of them, because they are concerned with what others may think. They live respectable lives simply so that they will be respected, not because of any spiritual desire to do good. Worship also can be solely a matter of keeping up the appearance.
People can go to church, and yet be present only in body.
Their minds can be far removed from the things of worship. Yet if they are not thinking of who it is they are worshiping, if they have no idea of the Lord as a real Person, then they are not really worshiping. When people are in such a state, they are without good, and they are without religion. They only appear to have these things. Deep down they are in bondage.