Sometimes I pray a certain frustrated prayer to God. I wonder if His response might go like this:
Well, I guess this is less a prayer and more me talking to the wall.
I'm probably reading II Chronicles or something in this panel.
See James 1:27, Luke 12:33, and about 17,000 other verses.
"I might be thinking "That sounds hard." Or I might be thinking, "I was just addressed by a very poorly drawn dove." The face works for either.
Rationalizing... 76% complete.
Or maybe I just saw a squirrel or something.
Not nice taking away my self-righteous complaints...
The trouble is more that we find Christ's teachings hard to obey, not hard to understand. Deep down, we'd rather do just about anything else.