GOD A MYSTERY TO MAN, MAN A MYSTERY TO HIMSELF:

It is in this light that man comes to God in prayer as an encounter of contradiction with a contradictory figure {the lion and the lamb on the Throne; Rev.5:5-6} not just by clapping, shouting, dancing e.t.c which are important parts of prayer but the connection of man’s abstraction with a Being whose abstraction is beyond his comprehension then ladled to the things around him. If you think and believe you have known God enough and the ordering of man’s affairs well then let’s go through this passage as you provide the answers therein:

“If you do know, you must have been born when they were, you must be very old by now!

Have you visited the place where the snow is stored?

Have you seen the stores of hail,

Which I keep for times of distress,

For days of battle and war?

From which direction does the lightning fork,

Where in the world does the east wind blow itself out?

Who bores a channel for the downpour

Or clears the way for the rolling thunder

So that rain may fall on the lands where no one lives,

And the deserts void of human dwelling,

To meet the needs of the lonely wastes

And make grass sprout on the thirsty ground?

Has the rain a father?

Who begets the dewdrops?

What womb brings forth the ice,

Who gives birth to the frost of heaven,

When the waters grow hard as stone

And the surface of the deep congeals” {Job 38:21-30}

If you can rarely give answers to these then what is the pride inside your head about your intelligence, beauty, handsomeness, wealth and status still doing there that you find it very hard to bend your knees in reverence awe for your Creator?