 People often ask, do you want a true encounter with God or do you just want emotion? But that assumes that encounters with God have no emotion. Did not God create the emotions? Is there any part of our being that wasn't created to respond to God? We don't pursue emotional experience, but emotional experience sometimes isn't the result of having a true encounter with God. How can you stand in the presence of God, be aware that he's near, sense his goodness and his love, and not be moved?