What do I mean?  Think about it.  How much of yourself do you put in to praising God?  Suppose you wanted a drink of water, you would go to your tap and effortlessly pour out a cup of water to drink.  Right?  Well let's change your situation around.  The water you need is in a well at the back of the house and you needed to pump it out.  How would you get that water?

I assume you would have to make a conscious effort to walk to your backyard where the pump is.  When you do, you have to put both hands to the pump and vigorously pump that water out.  In so doing you've made a conscious effort to get a cup or bucket of water.  That was not effortless.

So let me ask you, How do you praise God?  Do you praise Him effortlessly or do you make a conscious effort to put your heart and soul in to your praising?

Once I was teaching a hands-on computer class and one of the students in the class was taking the class for the second time.  He was known by the other teachers in the center to take a class up to three times.  The reason was not because he was very interested in the class but simply because during classes, he had a terrible obsession of switching to the internet to check on his stocks.  This was a great distraction which caused him to miss out on some important lessons being taught.  He was so consumed with the stocks that he switched between screens like lightning almost at the end of every sentence.

Oh if only we as Christians would be so conscious as to make deliberate efforts throughout each day to contact our Heavenly Father!