© Ayo Omolayo
I arrived at the classroom in tears and ran to my seat. I was in tears, angry tears you might say. I bowed my head and wept bitterly. How would God watch me from heaven suffering in the hands of the enemy?
I cried to him for deliverance and even obeyed the instruction he gave me. Yet, he refused to come to my rescue. I can’t believe God would do this to me!”
I was still head bowed when a hand tapped me. I assumed it would be Romeo and shook him off. I wasn’t ready for any question and answer session. I just needed a good place to be angry. Angry at who exactly? Well, I bet you all know, but should I be angry?
“Juliet!” A voice I was sure wasn’t Romeo called.
I looked up and saw a boy who I noticed was always listening to me whenever I preached, but never gave his life to Christ.
He was always an ardent listener, but all he did was to listen.
I was really shocked by the expression on his face. He looked like someone who had a load of questions on his mind and needed answers. I was so bitter right now, but I was interested in hearing what this guy had to say.
For the first time in history, he was about to open up to me. I wouldn’t want to miss this opportunity. I quickly sat up.
“Oh! I guess this is not a good time!” He said and turned to leave.
“No!” I grabbed his hand and did a fast tears wipping.
Romeo who was sitting next to me stood up and the boy was made to sit in between both of us.
“From the looks on your face, I can tell there’s something weighing heavily on your mind. Would you love to share it with me?” I asked.
He exhaled and shut his eyes.
“I wanted to talk about my sister, but I’m not sure if now is the right time. What just happened today has given me so many questions to ask about God?”
I looked intently at him and asked the one question that’s on my mind.
“What makes you think that way?”
“Because of what happened this morning.”
“What happened?”
“You have served God faithfully in the school. You have been preaching his word and sharing his love with everyone you met. But instead of God to bless you for your labour of love, he allows you to be punished unjustly.
You claim God is good, all the time and all the time, God is good. How will God sit in heaven and enjoy a home video of you being punished by some wicked men? Is that good?”
I was more than confused. What answer do I give this guy right now?
“Segun,” Romeo called.
“I would love to call your attention to something. You need to understand that God is God and not man. The word of God says that God has chosen the foolish things of their world, just to make sure he confuses the wisdom of the wise. He has chosen to make the most stupid things wisdom.
So what men call wisdom, when God looks at it, he hisses and calls it foolishness. And what God call wisdom, men look at it and laugh it off.
So trying to understand the ways of God with human intelligence is nothing but confusion and anger. You’ll end up hating God if you dare try to judge him by human standards.
So when you try to judge God by human standards, you’ll seriously condemn him and send him to hell. Is that even possible?
Now, God letting us to understand through his word that as children of God, it is normal for us to suffer persecution. And he also went further to tell us that whenever we are being persecuted for righteousness sake, our reward in heaven is great.
So that’s why you see Juliet here crying,” he said and placed a hand on my shoulder.
“She wasn’t shedding tears of regret, she was shedding tears of joy. Her reward in heaven us doubled. Raised to power 2.”
Segun turned to look at me as though he needed a confirmation.
Wait oooo! Is Romeo teasing me or what? Does he think it was easy for me to do all those frog jumps? If you knew the way my legs are hurting me, you wouldn’t be talking about raised to power 2.
“JULIET SMILE FOR ME JARE!”
I don’t know how the smile came out immediately. I’m sure it was Holy Ghost that tickled me. I felt a rush of joy in my tommy and a smile was how I was able to express it.
“Daddy, I won’t lie you ooo! I was angry with you! How could you allow them to punish me like that?”
“DO YOU WANT TO BEAT ME?”
“Haaaaa! No na! I was just….. just….!”
“JUST WHAT? SAY IT! OR SHOULD I WITHDRAW YOUR REWARDS IN HEAVEN AND DUMP IT IN THE GARBAGE CAN? SHOULD I DISPOSE YOUR REWARDS FOR ENDURING PERSECUTION?
PLEASE TELL ME SO WE CAN DO THAT IMMEDIATELY!”
“No sir! I’m sorry sir!”
“SO WHY WERE YOU ANGRY WITH ME? WAIT, YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU WERE ANGRY WITH ME FOR ALLOWING YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN TO INCREASE?”
“No sir! I’m so sorry for saying such nonsense! Please forgive me!”
“JULIET, JOB SAID IN THE BOOK OF JOB 13:15. THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM: BUT I WILL MAINTAIN MINE OWN WAYS BEFORE HIM.
DOES GOD SLAY HIS CHILDREN?”
“No! Not at all!”
“BUT HERE WAS JOB SAYING THAT EVEN IF GOD SHOULD CARRY A KNIFE AND CUT HIS THROAT, HE’LL STILL TRUST IN GOD.
ARE YOU SURE BOTH OF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE SAME HEAVEN? OR HAS THE STANDARD OF HEAVEN CHANGED?”
“I’m so sorry sir! I’m such a stupid girl! I’m nothing but a big failure and a disappointment!”
“WILL YOU STOP THAT NONSENSE?”
“Sir!”
“STOP CALLING WHAT GOD HAS CLEANED AN UNCLEAN THING! I HAVE WASHED YOU AND CLEANSED YOU WITH MY PRECIOUS BLOOD. STOP CALLING YOURSELF WHAT I HAVE NOT CALLED YOU!”
“But Daddy, that the truth na! I just disappointed you!”
“DID YOU HEAR THAT FROM MY MOUTH?”
“No sir!”
“WHAT DID YOU HEAR FROM MY MOUTH? TELL ME!”
“I am the righteousness of God. I am a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, a holy nation and a peculiar people. I was called forth out of darkness into his marvelous light and I am to show forth the praises of the great deity who called me.”
“THAT’S A BETTER DESCRIPTION OF THE ANGEL I CREATED. NEVER BELIEVE THE FACTS OF THE DEVIL. REMEMBER AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU’RE A DISAPPOINTMENT, THEN YOU SHALL CONTINUE TO BE A DISAPPOINTMENT TO GOD.
BE IT UNTO YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH.”
“No oooo! I reject negative faith in Jesus name!” I replied.
“Juliet, are you here?” Romeo asked.
“Oh! Of course I am!” I said all smiles.
“Okay, he said and continued talking to the boy.
“Daddy, you’re the best Dad a girl like me could ever ask for!”
“WOW!”
“I mean it oooo! They way you’re tolerating this my misbehaving Ehn, if it’s human being, by now , they would have disowned me.”
I could hear daddy laughing within me. I began to smile sheepishly.
Soon, I met Romeo and Segun, staring at me.
“Haaaa! Why are you guys looking at me like that?”
“Is she daydreaming of a guy?” Segun asked in a playful scorn.
“Yes!” I answered.
“I’m lost in the lovely warm of my daddy. I’m referring to God.” I said and tucked out my tongue.
“Oh! Christian girls are not allowed to date guys until they’re old enough for marriage. I have forgotten about that rule,” he said with a mock surrender.
“Thanks for acknowledging!” I replied grinning.
“So you have an invisible boyfriend? Kinda crazy though!”
“Yeah! Because God has chosen the foolish things to make those who think they’re wise become stupid!”
“Haaa! That harsh!” He said as he bad eyed me.
“If God is your boyfriend, how can he help you out when you get aroused? You need a physical boyfriend to do that. That’s the disadvantage of having an invisible boyfriend.”
“Well, in a relationship, making love is not the ultimate. Having a companion is what matters. And for your information, when I get aroused, he makes me realize I’m different. He makes me realize that I’m too expensive to masturbate or make love without a guy paying heavily to have me.
So he teaches me to wait for the right time. And you see, waiting for the right time has alot of advantages. Joseph is a good example. He waited for God to bless him with a wife and rejected commiting sin with Mrs Portiphar. And the end, God blessed him with a beautiful lady and two handsome boys.
So those who are waiting for God just like the bible says, there’s time for everything under the sun, are not fools.”
“Wow! This God is making sense to me right now. His ways look so stupid, but they are making sense to me with the way you’re explaining it.”
“God is wisdom. Anything aside him is foolishness. So you better step in and be wise for yourself.”
“I have already stepped in a long time ago. I’m one of your secret disciples. I got born again the same day Ope did on the assembly ground. Ope was not the only one who got born again that day, I did. That’s why I’ve always been around to listen to you whenever you’re preaching. I was only listening to my mentor,” he said grinning.
“Wow! Congratulations!” I said and shook his hands.
After shaking hands with me, he pulled me to himself and hugged me.
I felt a sound bell ringing in my head. Ewooo! Hug, just a harmless little hug. Even the Romeo sitting beside me everyday, daddy said I should not hug him, but I’m hugging this new guy.
Okay! Let me pretend that all is well.
“So what brought you to revealing yourself. Was there a question on your mind or something else?”
“It’s about my sister, she claims my Dad is a devil and she’s threatening to kill him and kill herself. She said she would slice him bit by bit and make him suffer for the wrong things he did to her. She said she would watch him scream in pain and beg for mercy and she would laugh at him as she will torture him with pain till he dies.”
“That’s serious!”
“Remember the day you stood here and had a meeting and there was a girl standing outside watching the revival meeting.”
“Oh! You mean that girl!”
“Yes! That’s my sister!”
“You mean your father is molesting her?”
“He’s not my father. He adopted me. She’s his true daughter. She’s my foster sister, but I prefer calling her my sister. I’m the one who looks like the real son now. Because it’s obvious he has turned his biological daughter to something else.”
“This is serious,” Romeo sighed.
“And now, she’s planning on ending it all. The thing is this, if that man dies, my future dies also. That man is alot of money. But I don’t trust his family members. They all hated me and I’m sure I’ll not be treated well. I really want him to survive, but with the way things are going, my sister is going to carry out her plans anytime soon. I really need help.”
“Wait a second, you mean you only want to save your foster father because of his money?”
“What else? Why would I want to save him in the first place if not his money? That guy is a beast. I only want him to live because he has the money to get me a bright future. Once I’m done with my education, to hell with him.”
“Daddy help your girl ooo! This one pass me!” I said within me.
To be continued……….
I so much love the conversation between Daddy and Juliet.
Many of us are yet to realize that whenever people treat us badly because of Jesus, they are actually blessing us.
We see it wrongly and begin to be bitter towards them and hate them.
I know of choiristers who stopped singing and left the church choir because someone insulted them. The one that pained me most was where a choirister who was so passionate to use her God given talent and was always singing, got angry because a fellow choirister told her she’s trying to show herself as the best singer.
Haaaaa! I wonder if we read that bible we carry to church. The bible says rejoice and be glad. That girl is only helping you get more reward in heaven.
Ushers, treasurers, leaders in churches. See those insults as blessing. No wonder Jesus said father forgive them, they don’t understand what they are doing.
I believe this message is for someone.
INSPIRED BY THE BREAD OF LIFE
WRITTEN BY AYO OMOLAYO
YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST 🙏
