SE EYAN NI AWON ELEYI SHA

We all may heard of 'awon seniyan seranko'.
Those spirits that put on the form of humans and walk freely among us.
You may have a witness to a scene where a fair skinned lady transforms into a snake.
Or seen a grown man jump over fences effortlessly like a monkey, just because he calls himself a politician and is not ready to stop eating the national cake.

We all may have heard of 'awon ti o laye'
Those ones who hold the scales of nations in their hands and tip it towards a place they like.

Perhaps we may have even seen them already.

Maybe witnessed a young man throw up a white handkerchief which transforms into a knife so sharp that it cuts through the thought of the watcher and thus made you wince even though it did not come in contact with your skin

Maybe you watched as one of the sons of Sango made a rare public appearance, decked in a fully red regalia and spewing forth fire from his mouth like you do whenever the dew falls in the morning and you blow smoke-like air.
An experience that makes you twist your mouth a little and behave as though you were puffing hard on a stick of cigarette.

Maybe you may have even seen Oluweri dance in a bikini themed video shoot;
Shaking her fins vigorously at the cameras while the watchers thought she was a first class product from the University of twerking.

You may have even been a part of the crowd that may have waited to see if a man's kini would return after he complains that a certain man, now fully baptised in slaps, touched him.

You may have seen all the above.
But have you seen those people who are literally going mad for Christ?

Those 'eleran ara' (people) like us who prayed for a ten thousand crowd to fill a venue where forty people hardly converged.
Those men who brought more than one million souls to God within one night.
Those dogged women whose ministries have ministered life to more than 80 million people on earth.
Those sets of men like Idahosa who could conveniently shake a city within a short while and still be remembered everywhere.

My heart shudders when my ears listen to such testimonies.

"E gbe Olorun tobi" is the only sentence which I can muster at such points in time when the most sophisticated diction fails me.

"God is great!" is the silent response which everything around whispers when their ears mistakenly pick up the exclamation I just uttered.

Just like that 'alangba' (lizard) whose head keeps going in a up and down motion while saying, "beeni, beeni"
Just like that soldier ant that momentarily paused in his stride, breaking up the formation for a while just to affirm that God is great.
Just like that mosquito that momentarily stops in her feeding, answers "Yes, God is great" and sinks in her piercers to keep sucking the blood from my sleeping neighbor.

Indeed, God made those same men and women.
And eagerly awaits for me to break free of my limiting thoughts and actions.
A breaking free to embrace the purpose He has called me to achieve.

Aye (Yes)
There are men and there are MEN.

Which one are you?
#Bashorun

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