"Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9"All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." 10Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"
Yet you ask to be given "heavenly choirs."
God is a vibrant and fantastic force, a giver of peace and joy, but much of our day to day, minute to minute service to Him is through discipline, solemnity, right action without feeling, feeling, feeling or thinking, thinking, thinking. You ask to be entertained. To be inspired I assume. God inspires from within when we do as He asks of us. You have read your bible. Do you pray the rosary, take communion, meditate, fast? If you did all of these things daily you would better understand that you were the one asking for pomp and circumstance and to be entertained and Ironically ended your vanity with a biblical passage that asked only one thing and that is to be wary of temptations of satan and of the earth and serve only God. Make shift. Make shift. He will decide from your make shift service what pleasures He shall give you from that. Try it sometime. It is divine.
I will reply privately in FReepmail tonight what I was *trying* to say...
Cheers!