Very undeveloped Christians often have very powerful emotional experiences. No one could possibly believe that she knew anything about a real Divine union, in spite of all her fervent emotions in regard to it. Your joy in the Lord is to be a far deeper thing than a mere emotion. It is to be the joy of knowledge, of perception, of actual existence. It is a far gladder thing to be a bird, with all the actual realities of flying, than only to feel as if you were a bird, with no actual power of flying at all.
Reality is always the vital thing.
But now, having guarded against this danger of an emotional experience of Divine union, let us consider how the reality is to be reached. And first I would say that it is not a new attitude to be taken by God, but only a new attitude to be taken by us. If I am really a child of God, then of necessity my heart is already the temple of God, and Christ is already within me. What is needed, therefore, is only that I shall recognize His presence and yield fully to His control. The days pass by over that favored household, and they remain in ignorance of their marvelous privilege.