I love this.

"We are the people who struggle with God—that is, who take God seriously enough to struggle with Him, to endure struggle for His sake. To accept this truth, and to know it better than we know our own names, is to find ourselves the recipient of God’s richest blessing. Classically there are two ways of soliciting the favor of God. One way is by trying really hard to be very good and hoping that God will take notice. The other way is to beg God for His blessing and to refuse to let Him off the hook until He comes through. This latter way, as inelegant and impious as it sounds, is the Biblical way. Mike Mason, The Gospel According to Job.