God isn't a desert!

I'm reading "The Grace & duty of being spiritually minded" by John Owen. He isn't the easiest of authors! I read this last night and it really blessed me so I wanted to share it you:

“Now, we do not draw nigh to God, as himself speaks, as to a “dry heath or a barren wilderness,” where no refreshment is to be obtained. To make a pretense of coming unto God, and not with expectation of receiving good and great things from him, is to despise God himself, to overthrow the nature of the duty, and deprive our own souls of all benefit thereby. And want hereof is that which renders the worship of the most useless and fruitless unto themselves. We are always to come unto God as unto an eternal spring of goodness, grace, and mercy, of all that our souls do stand in need of, of all we can desire in order unto our everlasting blessedness.”

Owen, Grace & duty, Works vol 7, p534.