Maybe you've prayed in the past: "God, speak to me with an audible voice" but we couldn't stand to regularly hear that voice of the absolute God in that way as He spoke to Peter, James and John on mount Tabor. But when Jesus comes near, as a testimony in your inner man, that is what brings a real change in you.
We can get strength out of the story of the Israelites. It's easy to point our fingers to them and call them stubborn, but...
God wants to give you a breakthrough in your heart when you surrender everything to Him. He will come down and make all things...
It's not the ultimate vision for the church to be walking around the millstone, moving every part but never reaching a destination never fulfilling...