Psychological Elements

"It's All Just Psychology"

It seems to me that if we’re to love and worship the Lord our God with all the catalogue of heart, mind, soul and strength and love our neighbours as ourselves I seems to me that makes psychological elements mandatory. 

For a start, which is more healing – going away from a healing meeting with no more sore joints to a cold empty house to watch tv alone all week again and the apin come back just as before or going away knowing that someone cares about you and will pop round to see if you need anything and give you lots of oxytonin hormones simply by being a human presence ? Why can't we do both, pray for healing and visit the lonely, help the needy ? Why do we offer just one or the other, that's if we offer either of course. 

Why can’t singing in church give emotional experiences AND help me feel more disinhibited so that I’m more open to God and to others AND memorise scripture AND state eternal truths AND send shivers up my spine by hearing human voices in harmony AND give me the feeling of being united in faith with other believers AND hear God speaking to me AND God give messages and reminders to others etc … all within one service or over the period of worship life together. ? 

And if all those good things are allowed for and encouraged in the Bible surely we can get those things wrong too and be open to manipulation, try to get these things by getting drunk, be ill informed about what to expect so limiting what we ‘allow’ God to do, being ill informed so trying to enforce things that God doesn’t enforce etc etc If the High priest Zerrubabel needed an elbow shove reminder from God to not try to get things by force of will (manipulation or pressure) or by physical force then surely any leader or would be leader might be tempted to look for success using alternative methods too. Doesn’t mean they’re the wrong leader doing the wrong thing at the wrong time necessarily, and it doesn’t mean that we write off everything that leader did because they didn’t finish as well as they started. Rant over. Knee jerk reaction. Sorry.