I remember a story I read in the sixth grade about two high school wrestlers. The plot is lost to me, but the one scene I remember is the two of them in a restaurant. They had to watch their weight, so when one of them wanted a milkshake, he would slosh it around in his mouth to get the taste, then spit it out.

We do the same when it comes to God. We get a taste of His goodness, but then reject it because of the inconvenience we will suffer. We know that God will expect us to do His will, and we don’t want that “burden.”

Therefore, we will talk about how good He is only to disavow Him in our daily lives. I am not immune to this problem, I am guilty of doing this more times than I want to admit. When we do that, what does it say about our beliefs?