Christ should ever be the material of our worship; and He will be, in proportion as we are led by the Spirit of God. How often, alas! it is otherwise with us the heart can tell. Both in the assembly and in the closet, how often is the tone low, and the spirit dull and heavy? We are occupies with self, instead of with Christ; and the Holy Ghost, instead of being able to do His own proper work, which is to take of the things of Christ and spew them unto us, is obliged to occupy us with ourselves, in self-judgment, because our ways have not been right.