Let me ask you something that might be a little uncomfortable: when things get hard — when obedience to God costs you something real — what are you working with? Is what you have a conviction, or is it a preference? Because those two things can look almost identical on a Sunday morning in a comfortable pew. But the moment the pressure comes, the moment the furnace gets stoked or the lions start circling, the difference between them becomes impossible to miss. The Bible is fil