Worshiping the True God Falsely

We also worship the true God falsely. We may not be tempted to make a golden calf, but we are tempted to turn the God who is there into the kind of God we would like him to be. We want God to teach our minds but not to transform our hearts. We want him to give us a lift when we worship him on Sunday, but we don't want him to govern all our words and actions the rest of the week. We want him to change others, but we don't want him to change us. We want his love without his holiness and his mercy without his justice.

--Philip Graham Ryken, Exodus: Saved for God's Glory (Preaching the Word; Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2005), 985.