Hamish, by this time was in utter disgust with himself and the game, threw his clubs down and started heading for the burn. I'm going to drown myself in the burn. No, you're not, Hamish. I wonder if this is how God feels with me sometimes. Yet, I do the exact opposite.
Sin always creeps back in.
We all do. We all break the rules, fail to follow the law. But there are also times when God goes to extraordinary lengths to remind me what life in Christ is all about, when the Spirit draws me back to Christ and his love. In some ways we can expand this image from the personal level in order to see that God is always going to great lengths to show humanity what life is really about, when God took on flesh and sent the Son to the religious authorities in Jerusalem to show them how much they completely missed the mark. There's an extent to which they don't know Yahweh and do not understand God's way of being.