Should we try to storm Heaven? Can we try to force God's hand on our behalf? Jesus paid it all.

Obadiah 1:6 How are the things of Esau searched out! How are his hidden things sought up!

We are Esau. We were not God's first choice. He has made provision for our salvation and we still act in animosity against the dearness of others to God in a carnal way. We either act in violence to steal, if we could Heaven from God's hands or we act in duplicity, to conn God to believe that we are worthy in some way. God has ways of dealing with the likes of us. But, it is always for the purpose of our ultimate salvation.

God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

If that is our desire we are in Sync with God's purposes. If not, we are the target of Obadiah's lament. God will search our ultimate purposes up from the depths of the reality from whence they are come. We can't bring anything to God, but the Hell inside our hearts. We must come in repentance and faith. We must see our real devices and submit them to God. We must return to Him daily, "Our Father" confessing our ineptitude to have right thinking and motives. God will search them{our motives} out and teach us His ways. We can't wrestle Heaven from God, or challenge Him to a battle of wits. All of these are from Esau and Edom. I will either win it my way or give up trying. God has given us His son, our part is submission to God and bringing our wicked deployments of wits under the submission to God's Holy Word. That is crowning Him in that part of our lives that we are attempting to walk circumspectly. I cannot walk circumspectly, if I am not looking.