MY JOURNEY AS A SINGLE MOTHER.
Part 19
By Authoress Rhoda.
The moment I saw her, my eyebrows and my upper eyelids pulled up. My lower eyelid was so tensed and drawn up as well. In fact, my mouth was stretched and drawn back to the extent that my teeth were exposed a little bit. Vertical wrinkles appeared between my eyebrows.
I was very confused. I was very scared.
Who will not be scared?
The way she entered the room carried terror. The way she looked at us was very dangerous and scary.
I thought I was the only one who was scared.
My wonderful sister was already shivering.
In fact, Leke urinated on his body. My children let out a cry.
Confusion everywhere.The atmosphere became so tensed.
“Bisi, let us honorably take our leave before this beast descends on us.” Esther said.
I was about to give her a reply when Deola slapped her.
“How dare you slap me, you beast?” Esther asked.
I wasn’t comfortable with the way things were going. I begged Esther to keep quiet because I believe something provoked her which made her to slap her.
“Please, let us leave this place immediately.” I said as I dragged Esther up.
“You fools are not going anywhere today. That stupid brat even have the audacity to call me a beast.” She said pointing at Esther.
“I will make sure I show you guys pepper.” She said.
That threat alone made me shiver. If she could stab her boyfriend like that, then she can kill any body.
“You are very stupid for saying that. You want to show us pepper. I mean you this filthy rag want to show us pepper. Wait, who do you think you are? Well, no wonder I called you a beast, and truly, you are one.” Esther said.
I whispered something into Esther’s ear. I told her to remember what the bible says in the book of proverbs 15:1—A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
She understood my message clearly. She kept quiet. Little did we know that Deola was just giving us “silence is the best answer for a fool” treatment.
We thought we had overcome her. We didn’t know that she was up to something.
I must confess at this junction that I made a terrible mistake.
The mistake was that: I didn’t fully involve God. I thought I could handle the case by my own strength, that was why I decided to follow Esther. I never knew that my experience, knowledge, would fail me.
Many people today depend on what they know. They depend on their own strengths which make it look as if they are very wise.
Some people even seem to be wiser than God but they have forgotten that God said in the book of Isaiah 29:14b that👇
The wisdom of wise men shall perish. The understanding of the prudent shall be hid.
Also, 1 Corinthians 1: 19—For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise?… Hath not God made foolish thebwisdom of this world?
No wonder 1 Samuel 2:9b made it well known that :For by strength (capacity, intelligence etc.) shall no man prevail.
I thought I could do it on my own because I knew how God has been helping me.
I was wrong.
Deola shut the door from behind. No opportunity for us to run away. We were just to late. Assuming we took that decision of running away, immediately she entered, we wouldn’t have entered pepper.
Esther wasn’t taking the whole matter lightly. They began to exchange words. I was still fearful.
All of a sudden, I remembered God hasn’t given me the spirit of fear. I opened my mouth to speak.
“Deola, your secrets have been exposed. Enough of your terror. I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that the evil spirit dominating your life be cast out of you.” I prayed.
Esther joined me too.
Deola was just mocking us. I expected her to be delivered. She was just laughing at us. I almost doubted the power of God.
We prayed again fervently, but she disgraced us. She descended on us and gave us the beatings of our lives.
“God!!! Deliever me. Fight for us.” I prayed.
“God will never deliver you because your garment has been stained with sin. You fought with someone today and you are yet to forgive the person.” The evil spirit in her spoke.
I was incapacitated.
I remembered how I picked a fight with a lady who was trying to remind me of my past.
She was the fuel behind how my story spread like a fire. What she really did today really pissed me off. I was vexed. The fact that she mocked me and called me names brought out the madness in me. Yes, because anger rests in the bosom of fools (Ecclesiastes 7:9b).
I couldn’t deliever Leke because I was yet to be delivered from my sins. A sinner cannot lead a sinner to Christ effectively because of the devil—An accuser of brethren.
Esther couldn’t deliver Leke or confront the beast in human form because she also had a crack in her wall.
Ahh!! We were beaten.
We couldn’t help but shed tears.
Assuming I had involved God, He would have revealed my life to me. Ge would have warned me.
“Stupid Christians…” She said as she stood up, coming to our direction with a bottle in her hand.
Fear was boldly written on our faces. I even thought I was going to die.
As she was getting closer to us, Leke called her attention to something in her body, one of the twins handed the key to us. She picked the key up when she was playing. I think Deola carelessly dropped the key.
Immediately she handed the key to me, I made a signal to Esther. Immediately, I carried Taiwo while Esther carried Kehinde.
At the spur of the moment, I opened the door. We all took to our heels. We ran as fast as our legs could permit without looking back.
It was when I got home I checked if anyone was following us.
People thought we were mad because they didn’t see anyone chasing us, yet we were running.
Immediately we got home, I went on my knees. I cried out my eyes to God for mercy. Esther was on the floor, rolling herself, crying for mercy.
When we thought we had escaped from the beast, we never knew she was still after us. We never knew she was going to show herself.
Were we able to overcome this time around?
Watch out!
To be continued.
©️Ojo Rhoda Ayanfeoluwa.
