I know the Lord is nothing like me. He goes so far as to say "For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, Nor [are] your ways My ways," says the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55: 8-9). There is no 'spot' at which the Earth ends. One can argue the earth of the Earth, highest at Everest and so forth giving us a range. But the 'Earth's atmosphere' is part of the Earth is it not? And it is a continuous part. As spacecraft leave here they go through places where the atmosphere is present and gradually end up where there is no atmosphere. How would we measure that? Best guess would be from the place (already above the Earth) where we are sure there is no atmosphere, not wholly accurate but it will do.
Where do 'the heavens' start? Where are 'the heavens' I often ask? I will not venture into that one. Have our space craft and probes made it into the heavens yet? If they have then the Lord's statement is less lofty than it sounds and we have surpassed God's ideas by our amazing resourcefulness. Ludicrous!!
I am repeatedly bad and disobedient. I should get my family back into the Word, I keep putting it off and/or waiting for a spare moment and in reality there are none. When we did it, I do not think I know how/when we did because I was busier then than I am now. My lack of daily spiritual feeding has made me so weak I do not resist temptation. I go at the mere suggestion of one thing or the other, it's a pathetic sight. Yet in light of all this, I have job requests out there, I have a significant interview and a few other things for which I desperately need the Lord's favour. If some of these things (the interview in particular) have a 'bad' outcome then we are adding hurt to our current condition.
The Lord's Grace surpasses all my wickedness, in fact all the World's wickedness. Just the bits I know and am party to are really really wicked, and then there are the rest, the things that I find revoltingly bad. His Grace is sufficient for all those too! And His Word says all His thoughts towards me are good and not evil (Jeremiah 29:11). That makes me concurrently grateful and ashamed. I was told to put my Hope in God, not a pay raise, new car etc. I do not know if that translates into an action. The morale of this story is this; do not run from His Love, it cannot be done.
" I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants [for I am not worthy to be called by your name].”’
“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
“But the father [said, "Nonsense my boy! and] said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry." (Luke 15:18-24).
That is what I will do.
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