This Will of God!

THIS WILL OF GOD!
©Agbaje tolulope
✅100% fiction

My piles of clothes in a corner, blocking off a hole some rats had dug there. My 19th century foam lying peacefully on a bare,  cemented floor. One could see the  tiny structures of bed bugs as they manoeuvre themselves in the mattress.  The room, though looks old and discoloured is nearly arranged. I sat alone in my one room apartment,  reminiscing on the event of the day before. It took me a lot of courage not to burst into fresh tears.  Why do I have to experience this?  Of all the things I've heard and seen,  guys don't go through too much stress in getting a girl.  Why am I now experiencing this?  I wouldn't say its as a result of money,  because I am rich.  Maybe not to a great extent,  but at least I have a good car,  a beetle.  So long as it moves,  its good.  I have a whole room to myself.  I also work as a Gardner at the White House, isn't  that enough to make girls flock around me?  I have given up on God to lead me a long time ago.  I don't really believe all this God's leading stuff,  its more for the younger ones than for me.  I am 29 for crying out loud,  if I should start waiting on God at this age, then I would get married at the age of 40. God forbid!
                I thought about the event of the day before,  I had met a girl at the White House, she was the daughter of one of the gardeners. A fair, tall and beautiful lady named Amaka. I immediately introduced myself as chidi, a renowned gardener at the White House. After I had said and done,  she looked at me and replied... 'old man,  do I look like I belong to your level?  My father could be a colleague of yours but Mr man,  not me.  I am a graduate of medicine, from the great university of Ibadan.  I am on my housemanship in Abuja,  and I was told to come to the White House and run some tests on all the staffs.  So you see,  that we don't belong to the same world. When I want to marry, I would pick someone from a very high class not some illiterate,  low man like you' as I thought about the incident all over again, I felt tears trickle down my face.  It wouldn't have really pained me,  if I were just a gardener.  But I am a graduate of Engineering for that matter.  Architectural engineering. It was the situation of Nigeria that made me resort into a gardener to earn a living. I don't intend to remain like that of course,  but at least,  I had to get something doing for the time being. I was so lost in thought that I didn't even know when I stood from a chair in the room,  moved to my mattress and laid down.  I wanted to make a move of standing up from the chair when I suddenly realized that I was on my bed already. Few minutes later,  I dozed off. 
                 Repeated knocks on my door brought me out of my dreams,  I jumped up and quickly wiped away the drool at the corner of my mouth.  As I was trying to get my acts together and put on a shirt,  the knock came again.  I threw open the door in annoyance, who is it?  Lo and behold,  it was amaka. What are you doing here?  I asked in annoyance. Wow,  so you are the one staying in this dingy room with odours oozing out from it.  She replied me with disgust. Well,  anyway,  I came with my friend to share the gospel with you.  Would you want to give us a chance, because you really need Jesus to change the story of your life. If I had ever felt this kind of adrenaline to beat the hell out of someone before, I would have killed that person.  I was about to lash out a hot reply when a soft voice spoke up behind her.  'Amaka,  how will you come for evangelism and still be abusing the person,  that's not good enough, I am very sorry about that sir,  please,  God has a word for you this evening, could you spare us few minutes' I had to step out of my room to see the face of the speaker.  I angrily pushed amaka to one side and came face to face with the lady that spoke.  I was expecting to see a lady like Amaka,  dressed up with heavy make up,  and loud jewelries.  But lo and behold,  i saw a fair,  moderately tall lady.  With a beautiful natural face, hair covered in a scarf unlike Amaka whose tail long hair was blowing around and causing a nuisance.  I was so engrossed by the beauty of this lady that i was totally unaware that i was staring. 
                    'so what do you say to hearing from God this evening, she asked me.  'sir, sir' she said.  I immediately came to my senses and turned my face away from her.  I'm sorry i was staring,  please, of course you can come in.  But certainly not this proud friend of yours.' She smiled and insisted i let her in. The way her soft voice affected me on this particular day was amazing.  I had never felt so attracted to a lady before up to this extent. She presented the gospel to me in such a unique way that for the first time,  i saw myself as a sinner.  I had always thought i was moral,  and so as a result a Christian. But this very day,  she expounded the scriptures to me and led me to salvation.  Even big mouthed Amaka was sober.  After a while they left.  We exchanged numbers and she promised to be in close contact with me to help me grow more in the faith. 
Right from that moment,  everything about me changed.  I started to depend on God for everything. Within a short time,  i was called for an interview in one of the prominent companies where i had submitted an application to years before.  I got the job,  alongside with the benefits of a house, a car with a personal driver.  All this while,  chizoba,  the girl that preached to me,  stood by me.  Always encouraging me there's a reason for every situation.  She would teach me to commit all my ways to God and depend only in him.  She became my close confidant.  We became so close that sometimes, it baffles me how a girl like her, a medical doctor,  could stoop so low and find a friend in me.  Just a week before i was called for the interview,  we sat together in my room,  studying Gods word. She was explaining a particular verse to me which says 'and thou shalt hear a voice behind thee,  saying turn not to the right nor to the left'.  As she was explaining, i practically heard a voice within me saying,  'look in front of you,  there lies what you have been searching for' i looked in front me and the only thing i could see is the figure of chizoba sitting on a wooden chair with a big bible in her hands.  Immediately i told her what i just heard. It was then she smiled and told me,  she had been led by God to me for about 3years. And that God was waiting for me to surrender my life unto him,  before he would lead me to.  It was when she was getting impatient of waiting that she took it upon herself to hide under joint evangelism with Amaka and preach to me. As she narrated all the incidents, when God had spoken to her,  and how she really fought against the leading,  i wept like a baby. I saw how scattered my life was. I was busy chasing after shadows,  when someone was busy praying for me. That day,  we  prayed,  breaking every yoke of poverty and stagnancy. We talked about our past lives and she told me of hers.  But then i had to ask her how come God told her about me three years ago,  when we only just met few weeks back. She then explained to me,  she said the first time the vision started was when she just finished medical school,  at the university of Ibadan. Though she had been praying to God on the choice of a partner, she saw nothing until this particular day.
                     'i just finished a class, so i decided to relax alone in a particular cafeteria nearby. I had finished eating,  so i was busy looking out things around me and admiring the scenery.  In the course of my wandering look,  my eyes fell on a particular gardener, who was trimming the flowers around the cafeteria.  As he was doing so,  he accidentally hit a lady with his elbow as he was so engrossed in his work.  The lady could have just continued on her way after an apology but instead she thought it best to lambaste this man,  she abused him and said so much that people around felt so irritated and angry with her.  At a point, with the angry looks she got from people around,  she stopped and walked away embarrassed.  While the incident was going on,  i felt a great nudging in my spirit that the man i would marry would experience this.  Immediately i rebuked it, how would God bring a gardener my way.  I stood up angrily and left the place. ' hmmm,  i signed as she continued her narration.
'The second time was when God specifically told me to go to Abuja for my horsemanship,  that he has prepared a package for me there. It was there i really got to know Amaka,  though we have been classmates but we have never really been close. We decided to get an apartment together.  It was then i knew she needed help too.  She was morally decayed.  I started working on her salvation,  praying for her and inviting her for programmes. The day she came to see her dad, and you tried to woo her was when i got the greatest direction from God. I was sitting close by waiting for her, when i suddenly felt the need to look in her direction.  I heard every single thing was said,  and before God spoke within me that you were the one,  i already knew it.  I cried where i sat, as i felt really bad for you.  Since then, i decided that i would help you in all the ways i can to bring you out of that predicament.

I really don't know what prompted me write this story. 100% fiction.
But I have a message for those who have seen the will of God, looking at the person, it looks as if there is no good in the person. You are already beginning to lose hope in Gods will. You have decided in your heart in choose with your sight because that person God told you about will not do you any good. I would like to tell you that you are not just his to be rib for anything. You are supposed to be a help for him or her. Then why don't you put the person to prayer and break every chains surrounding him or her. There's a lot your prayer can do. It may not even be for marriage partners alone. What about your friend, your siblings. When last have you taken time to pray for them. Prayers go a very long way. You may not see the result now but it will surely come.