This, and the other admissions, are honest but really excuse lying, as indeed we are lying, and i have, when singing words of such hymns that are not a reality with us to varying degrees. Even if those who wrote them were testifying to an overall reality using some degree of poetic license, yet i think this is so far from reality in many souls and in many churches that it makes a mockery of speaking the truth in our heart.
And I often wonder what matter of conscience some writers of modern songs have in the light of their claims for themselves.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. (Matthew 12:36)
Let all that is within me cry glory. "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name." (Psalms 103:1)
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing :
3. O to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be! Let that grace now like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above.
This description of the heart of the regenerate (by an old Anglican: J. C. RYLE - 1816-1900) is quite good. ARE YOU BORN AGAIN?
Catholics have a difficult time distinguishing between spiritual and carnal. Most times I don’t think they have a clue or inkling.