We are cells in the body of humanity. Each has a specific purpose and function. It is because most cells have not found their purpose and function that they experience painful disharmony within and the body of humanity is headed for chaos. Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way - purposeless, passionless, day after day.
People try to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things.
When spiritual blessings come material things seem unimportant. But spiritual blessings do not come until we desire them and relinquish desire for material things. As long as we desire material things this is all receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished. The most important part of prayer is what we feel, not what we say. We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think God should be doing, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what we should be doing.