I was waxing the car and my little dog was standing near me. I heard some geese approaching. I told her to look for the bird. She got busy lookin. Problem is, she kept looking straight ahead. She never did see the geese.
Later, as I was driving, the incident helped me in a rather startling way, to understand something from an entirely different perspective. She help me understand salvation from a dog’s perspective.
The sea is not teeming with animals. Neither is the sky. The teeming happens on the ground. I have heard there are plenty of times you could be underwater and never see a fish. And more times than not, I can look up at the sky and not see a bird. But the bugs and germs and animals and humans and birds and snakes…….. It just goes on and on, on the ground.
There are evil man who never touch the ground, in a manner of speaking. They do they’re evil deeds out of the sight of men. They are more of the demonic than human.
The majority of men however live their life in full sight of one another. These folks just strive to survive. They are neither overtly wicked nor coveting holiness. These are the type that if you told them to look for God they would not look up. They would look for a miracle.
But like the birds, there are a few who inhabit heaven. The majority of these men get their subsistence from the earth but they are not bound to it. Their natural habitat is the sky. They do not own the neck of a dog. To look up and to go up is more natural for them then to remain on the earth.
As for hope for the others: the Lord Himself has made these people who inhabit the sky. And he is quite able to transform any who ask. Finally, let us remember that there are such things as flying fish and flying squirrels ( not to mention bats and such.)