One day a man got tired of the hassles and bustles of
his country, made for another country in search of greener pasture. He had been
trekking for hours when a horse-rider raced by on his horse without saying
hello. He looked confused, and decided to rest for a while when a frog leaped
from a corner and asked the man, “Did you
see a horse-rider pass this side?” The man replied in affirmative when the
frog added, “That was the exact man I
want to catch up with … See you later!” It concluded and leapt ahead as the
man wondered, “Can a frog ever catch-up with a horse?” 
He got up, continued on his journey when he ran into
another mystery: A man was piling a heap of wood, he waited to offer help to the wood-gather but instead the gatherer kept running back into
the bush to fetch more woods saying, “This
will never be enough!” The journey walker looked at him amazingly and asked,
“Can he carry what he has heaped already?” 
He left the scene and moved ahead, looking for a shady
tree to take refuge from the hot afternoon. He had covered up to thirty miles
when he saw a shrubby baobab tree, ran into its shade thinking of taking a nap,
but he discovered that underneath the shade was even hotter than the outside,
in the sun. “What a mystery?” He asked himself.
He decided, continued his journey, as he felt thirsty
praying to God to set a stream before him or let him see an oasis filled up
with water. He felt his prayer answered when he saw three wells dug
side-by-side. He picked the water drawer he found by the side of the wells,
peeped into the middle well only to discover there was no drop of water in it.
Inquisitively, he looked into the remaining wells and found water in them but
as he was about to draw water from one of them; water in the two extreme wells
sprang like a fountain feeding themselves without any dropping into the middle
(empty) well. “What a life!” He asked
wondered as he decided seeing enough.
On getting to his destination, he sought a prophet who
interpreted the findings to the traveler.
Mystery 1
The horse-rider in scene one represents the world and
the frog, the people of the world. Man will
continue to chase the world but he will never meet-up till he dies.”
Mystery 2
The wood gatherer in the second scene connotes striving
man and the wood gathered is his accumulated wealth. He will never be satisfied with wealth till death terminates his strivings
and life.
Mystery 3
The third scene shows man’s perception of the rich and
wealthy of this world. You can never know
the extent of their personal problems until you move closer them.”
Mystery 4
The two extreme wells are the ‘Well-to-do’ of this world and the middle (empty) well represent the
poor. The Rich will be getting richer and
poor getting poorer.
Note: Brethren, what is it that troubles your heart? Do you need solutions to
your problems? Without Jesus, you will still be running from pillar to post,
and there will be no solution. He is calling you today, answer him; He is the
only solution to world’s problem.
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