And earth has nothing I desire besides you. But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. When you get in front of God, your worship will be hindered. You see, we often have things that we want to do to fulfill our own desires, so we don't have time for discovery, or prayer, or meditation, or worship. And it's hard to have an undivided heart because we're always thinking about our projects or our activities, or our needs.
Self always gets in the way of worship.
And we can't really be free to worship God until we eliminate self altogether and become lost in worshipping God. We cannot verbally thank and praise God while living lives of selfishness and carnality. That kind of effort at worship is a perversion. Real acts of worship must be the overflow of a worshipping life. The rarest harmonies of music are nothing unless they are sincerely consecrated to God by hearts sanctified by the Spirit.