By Banji Ayoola
We owe immense gratitude to the invisible Almighty Power behind the order in Creation. Which ensures the ceaseless working together in harmony of all the forces, unfailingly.
Which enables the punctual growing into and out of one another, of different events working together at the same time, rolling into one another harmoniously without any gap or failure, developing side by side together without any disturbance.
Whether man acknowledges it or does not, there is certainly a higher Power Which is behind the regularity and orderliness in Creation, that are clearly observable by any man who wants to see.
For instance, the day or sun breaks and sets or falls at regular intervals; sunlight breaks at daybreak or dusk to beam its vitalising rays across the earth to warm up and call to action, activate the bodies and set man off.
To put to work his innate abilities and talents, and gifts on the abundance of Nature, which are lavishly provided by a higher Power to build up and develop the earth. To a realm flourishing in happiness and peace for all her inhabitants indiscriminately, working for a certain number of hours in daylight.
Sun sets at dawn to give way to the night enveloped by darkness, which also falls at regular intervals, and prevails also for a certain number of hours to soothe, heal, calm, rest, recuperate, restore, refresh, strengthen and prepare all creatures for the following daybreak.
Heat and cold are regulated by certain forces. So do water and air stream through the arteries and every space of the earth, however tiny, in a regulated manner.
It rains in a regulated way. When seed is sown, it grows, blossoms and fructifies, ripens or matures compulsorily for harvest by the sower at a regulated time.
What is light floats and that which is heavy sinks. Likes attract likes, and repel dislikes. Everything moves.
Man ages. One feels light when one does good, but heavy when otherwise.
The four seasons – spring, winter, summer, autumn – set in regularly at their exact timing, with the peculiar blessings each pour over Creation, for the benefit and enjoyment of all creatures, including mankind.
Ceaselessly, without interruption, retardation or haste, without any hitch, without any strike or protest, the seasons punctually develop from, or grow or roll into one another, and dispense fresh riches peculiar to each season for the benefit of all creatures.
Spring signals an awakening in Nature to a new life, a new cycle, a renewal, rebirth, regeneration, re-freshening, and preparation for a new beginning of a new cycle.
When the harshness, dryness, the expiring, seemingly lifelessness of the preceding season gives way. To a more robust, soothing, lively and friendly season.
When Nature swallows the withering, the brownish deadening colours of the preceding season and turns green.
When a part of Nature including the fields, plants, leaves and flowers is generously painted in fresh green, the colour of life; when flowers dazzle anew in arrays of brilliant, radiant colours.
Above all, at a regularly recurring time every year, there is an Outpouring into Creation of new Divine Power by the Holy Spirit for the renewal and new cycling, without which everything created will wither and die off.
Compulsorily, every man including the doubter, is subject to all these happenings, the control of which is outside of him, and above him, as it is outside of, and above any other man or creature.
With these happenings, we should fall down on our knees, and thankfully render a most heartfelt gratitude to the invisible Almighty Power Which is behind, and controls all these beyond-the-power-of-man orderliness and regularity in Creation.
