I wonder if you have ever watched The Simpsons, the yellow animated characters on TV. In one episode Homer Simpson says, “Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever. Then there’s a brief pause. Thy biding will be done,’ says Homer and the he promptly scoffs the lot. – Homer thinks God is absent, silent, impotent maybe, and so, in no-way is he expecting to ever hear from him! But that is definitely not the experience of millions and millions of Christians around the world.