It was Baba Agba’s funeral service…The turn out was massive…
I wept as the guilt of knowing he died because of me tore at my heart intermittently.
Gambo had returned home. Favour couldn’t stand having Gambo around , so she had placed a call to her Father’s P.A.
They were at the Lighthouse in less than two hours. Gambo had come into my room to say her goodbye…
“ I would have loved to stay back, but I guess I have to move on…Thank you for the little time I had with you…”
I was only able to nod my head, as my body was still recuperating. After the men who carried me dropped me suddenly, I sprained my ankle… and I felt a lot of body pain.
Gambo had left but I wished there was a way I could have made Favour change her mind…
Therefore, sitting at the funeral service and seeing the large number of people who turned out for the funeral saying great things about him, I felt like a failure who had not done anything to impact lives.
After the funeral service, I retired to my room and sat with the scriptures…
The Spirit of God led me to read Zechariah 3. I stayed on the first few verses as it felt like a teacher sat in front of me instructing me to sit with the first few verses… I read it slowly over and over again…
It read….
“ In another vision the Lord showed me the High Priest Joshua standing before the angel of the Lord. And there beside Joshua stood Satan,ready to bring an accusation against him. The angel of the Lord said to Satan, “May the Lord condemn you, Satan! May the Lord, who loves Jerusalem, condemn you. This man is like a stick snatched from the fire.”
I paused at my fifth time of reading the scripture at that particular verse…
I rested my back on the bed as I ruminated over those verses….
“ Chuks, you are like Joshua the high priest, you have been called to impact lives, but Satan has been standing by you to wrongly accuse you, because of your past and recent errors, but thank God for the angel of the LORD, who has condemned the devil, telling him you are like a man that has been snatched from the fire….” I rested on that thought
After few minutes, I continued reading from verse 3
“Joshua was standing there, wearing filthy clothes. The angel said to his heavenly attendants, “Take away the filthy clothes this man is wearing.” Then he said to Joshua, “I have taken away your sin and will give you new clothes to wear.
He commanded the attendants to put a clean turban on Joshua’s head. They did so, and then they put the new clothes on him while the angel of the Lord stood there.
Then the angel told Joshua that the Lord Almighty had said: “If you obey my laws and perform the duties I have assigned you, then you will continue to be in charge of my Temple and its courts, and I will hear your prayers, just as I hear the prayers of the angels who are in my presence.”
I got the summary of those verses..
The devil has been raising accusations against me because of the filthy garment of sin, which God is the Only One who can take it away from me…
“ Oh Lord take away the filthy garment of sin from my body spiritually, so that I can be useful for you…” I prayed this prayer for days, until Tina from SCA paid me a visit….
To be continued
