Thanks for this post. I am sure you, @stan, are familiar with these, but to share for others, your post brings to mind Isaiah 55:8 (ESV):

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

and that also reminded me of Isaiah 66:1-2:

Thus says the Lord:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word. (ESV)