God is always previous

I started reading AW Tozer's The Pursuit of God.
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain...
We've been having a lot of rain lately so I was thinking how does he come to us as the rain? We try to forecast the rain and sometimes we are right and it comes when we expect it to but sometimes it comes sooner or later or not at all or it comes when we didn't think it would. Water and rain seem to me to have so many characteristics - a light, drizzle in the summer that makes you want to snuggle up with a cup of coffee and a good book...a good lightning show that lights the sky up and is fun to watch...a foreboding, dark and angry looking sky that makes you a little apprehensive...booming thunder and rain and wind that reminds us who is mightier than that.
Tozer reminds us that God is always previous. Before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.
"The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word."
I hope I never lose God when I watch the absolute wonders of his creation. What a shame to view a great rain storm and miss the wonder.