IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME

IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME


A young man was crushed by a fast moving vehicle right in my presence. Just a few minutes before that horrifying incident, He was walking side by side with me. He had great dream about his future, His education, marriage, and family life, big cars and houses, His parent had great expectation from him. They had thought that some day at their old age he will provide for them. All those dreams and expectations came to an abrupt end that awful moment, I crossed the same road and I taught in my heart” it could have been me”.

While in school, I came in contact with a blind beggar who said he was an ex-student of one of the polytechnic in the south west. He said he went to the library one night to read all night. He eventually fell asleep, but on waking up he discovered he could no longer see and he had suddenly gone blind, and there was no medical explanation for the blindness. His parents did all they could but there was no remedy, I have slept in the library, the classroom and all manner of places outside my home and I know it could have been me.

I saw on TV two men that have spent 18 and 25 years respectively at igbobi Orthopedic Hospital, One of them had the accident in his own car on the 3rd Mainland Bridge, Lagos.
How they wish they could rejoin their lovely family members in the comfort of their homes, relate with their wives and children. What about the so many projects they had before the accident? The truth is that I pass the same road almost everyday.

Dear readers, what sincerely do you think when you walk pass that beautiful prostitute? that crippled woman or that blind man? What about the thousand s in the police custody? And those in the prison for offences they do not commit? How do you react to the news of those who suddenly got afflicted by sickness such as kidney, heart or liver problems costing between N5M to N20M and yet have no money to eat let alone go for such operations.

Before you conclude that none of the above can happen to you because you are born again (which indeed is our prayer for you) please…….read……. many are the affliction
Of the righteous…… “(ii) What kind of man was Job? See Job 1:1 “…… This man was blameless and upright: he feared God and shunned evil (NIV} read also Heb 11:24 &25, Romans 8:35&36 etc.


In view of the above, let us develop a heart of gratitude to God because an ingrate can never be great. Do not grumble rather give thanks to God always and it shall be well with you.