PART 45"ONCE UPON A TIME "

PART 45
"ONCE UPON A TIME "
©️Opeyemi Akintunde

Kamal was not ready to listen to anyone pacifying him. He believed what he was doing was right. He needed to teach Rogers a lesson; a brutal one at that.

Rogers had no strength to fight the men who had rounded him up. He was ready to die.

" God who created everyone, into your hands I commit my soul!" Rogers said within his heart.

Instantly, he heard a reply... "You are not my friend, We are strangers to each other, so you can't commit your life into my hands".

Fear gripped his heart, as he had never heard such a voice before in his life. The voice was audibly real. It sent fear down his Spine.

He kept mute not knowing what to say. Instead, he laughed at his stupidity of many years. He couldn't count how many times he had been preached to, which he didn't regard, but here he was begging God.

He suddenly remembered a regular preacher beside his office. The man was in his mid fifties. He would resume his preaching post at the T Junction beside the headquarters of ROGERS' HUB . Rogers remembered how he had mocked him in his heart about his mode of dressing. This loud preacher was always fully dressed in poor looking suit. Rogers had jokingly said to his staff that he was a depressed broke man, of which one of them had replied...

" From what I heard, his mother had dedicated him to God as a young child, but when he grew up, he pursued business instead. According to the story I heard, After he had made so much money, he refused serving God as a young man, and at age fifty, while at work he suddenly became blind. It was during this period of blindness, he sought God and it was revealed that if he served God, he would receive his sight. Boss! He started this road preaching as a blind man. After a week of preaching, he received his sight. Ever since then he has been preaching..." Rogers remembered one of his workers saying about the preacher.

Rogers at that point remembered the popular saying of the man ...

" Las Las, I say Las las, all of us go know say God is real , I just hope your knowing stage will not be in the grave."

As the forest men dragged him to the stick that looked like a place for roasting animals, he mocked himself. The man had been right; as he was moving to his grave, he had realized God was real and the ONE who really mattered at the end of everything was God!"

******
Kennedy laid on his bed in his living room. He had mixed feelings and counter thoughts flying through his mind.

One line of thought went thus..." God thank you for bringing me out of this conspiracy orchestrated by the devil!..

Another line of thought was "I thank you for the souls won, but am I to leave them at this point of distress?"

These were the two line of thoughts hindering his sleep.

He fell to the ground and prayed...

" My father, I am confused. I know in the board game called life; just like a Champion chess player, your moves are highly unpredictable. I don't understand this move at all, you saved them tonight and yet you still took them to jail tonight. What are you trying to achieve sir?"

******
Evangelist Tobi woke up feeling tired. He ought to get up and go for his early morning cry, but he was as exhausted as a well ridden horse. The day before was his baby's naming ceremony. It had been a large event. People had travelled from far away just to celebrate God with him after God's show of goodness to him after 16 years of trying hard for a child.

" Knock Knock!" Silas his houseboy turned Spiritual son knocked at his bedroom door...

" Yes!" He had replied very tired

" Sir, it is 5:40am already!" Silas had said. Tobi knew what he meant. Leaving their home every morning at 5:30am was their usual routine, but that day his strength was failing him. He and silas had gone the previous day as usual though it was his son's naming ceremony but after the naming, he was thinking of skipping the present day...

" Silas, my body aches terribly!"

" Alright sir!"

Silas could tell his Spiritual father was tired. He saw it as an opportunity to go out on his own for the first time.

******
Redemption wondered why the Man with the loud preaching voice could not be heard. It was past 6am. Redemption rose up in the dark and carefully found the door, not wanting to wake any one up.

To be continued....

DEEP THOTS NOVELS
INSPIRED BY THE HOLY ONE
Received &Written by Opeyemi Akintunde
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