Spiritually stunted we marry His money.

When it comes to knowing God

we are a culture of the spiritually stunted.

So much of our religion is packaged to address our felt needs-- 

and those are almost uniformly anchored

in our pursuit
of our own
happiness and fulfillment.

God simply becomes

the Great Being who, 

   potentially at least, 

meets our needs and fulfills our aspirations. 

We think rather little of 

what he is like, 

what he expects of us, 

what he seeks in us. 

We are not captured by his holiness and his love.

His thoughts and words capture 

too little of our imagination,

too little of our discourse,

too few of our priorities.

In the biblical view...
  a deeper knowledge of God brings with it

    massive improvement in the other areas mentioned: 

purity 

integrity 

evangelistic effectiveness 

better study of Scripture 

improved private and corporate worship... 

But if we seek these without passionately desiring a deeper knowledge of God

We are 

selfishly running after God's blessings without running after him. 

We are

even worse than the man who wants his wife's services... 

without ever making the effort really to know and love his wife. 

We are 

worse than such a man, I say, because...

He is perfect in His love 

He has made us for Himself. 

Priorities from Paul and His Prayers (D.A. Carson)