Take the owner of a candy store for example. A little boy asked him how much the candy sticks cost. Actually, some of our hardest lessons come from the things that don't make sense. I often use the phrase myself, but I really doubt that there is such a thing. There are just human persons and, by one standard or another, every one of us is at least a little weird.
Braggarts usually expect more than they deserve.
Shy and self-effacing people often expect less than they deserve. Both often receive what they expect rather than what they really have coming. Before they put in the highway, I used to turn away 25 or 30 people every night. We imagine that we can apply our little bits of logic and pat rationalizations to our relationship with God. We cherish the notion that if we clear His table, do His dishes or mow His lawn, He owes us a tip, a bonus or a bigger piece of the pie.