Trading Certainty

I have two friends who attended two different tertiary institutions, spent four or five years paying school fees, attending classes, turning in assignments and projects, making friends, chasing love prospects, and building a future based on their dreams, only to discover after they graduated that they had a fake admission and were ineligible to go for NYSC or to receive the certificate of the schools they attended.

One of them attended UNAD, and the other attended OSU. Till today their lives have been defined by this issue. They never recovered from the setback.
The last I heard from the one who attended UNAD, he was trying to learn to drive trucks so that he could apply as a skilled worker for the Canada immigration process. The one who attended OSU is a church administration staff member earning way less than he should be earning because his employment was a favour from the pastor.

I also know some people who find themselves in a relationship with a man or a woman who does not really want them like that but chooses to be with them due to certain circumstances.

Imagine being with another man’s wife or another woman’s husband, imagine being with another lady’s boyfriend or another man’s girlfriend, imagine loving this person with all your heart but knowing the person belongs to someone else.
You are a second fiddle, the “strange” woman.

You are dating because you were deceived by the same person that he or she is single.
You are in love but you are in the shadow, you cannot declare your love openly or know with all your heart that your lover belongs to you.
He belonged to another; you know this and are powerless to do anything about it.

Now imagine that this lover tells you daily that “I will marry you someday, keep performing, keep making love to me and you can tell people you are dating me for now but it is not legal until I determine your fate.
Once you do anything wrong or displease me in any way, I will walk away from the illusion of a union we share.
How would you feel?

A relationship that offers no guarantees and yet demands your absolute devotion and commitment.
A relationship that started with the hope of being loved but turned out in reality to offer only a promise of “I will leave my partner one day and be with you if you keep satisfying me”. You know he is with his partner and he loves her.
If he has to choose between the two of you, she is his numero uno! You do wifely duty but have no wifely protection, support or cover.
She comes around to sleep with you once in a while and keep you company but it is stolen water, you know she is not yours!
What will you do?If you are wise you will break off the relationship.

The moment you realize your admission is fake, you will start writing JAMB and UTME to gain legal admission, if you are wise.

The same applies to the issue of man and the salvation of his soul, some insist they want to serve a God who offers them no assurance, no protection, no legal status.
They will worship and serve him faithfully all their lives but it is when they get to heaven that they will know if they qualify to be admitted due to their performance as “believers” while they are on this earth.
They are the “May we not miss heaven after a life of dedicated service to God” gang.
The ones who were told that if they made any mistake, no matter how tiny, all their years of faithful service would be thrown in the waste bin.
They will meet worse than the fate my friends with fake admission met…
At least my friends had the opportunity to start all over again from scratch, in the case of these believers they won’t even get a second chance!
They get thrown into hell.

Not because they didn’t believe in Jesus, they did but because they did something wrong or didn’t do something right.
You never can tell what will cost you your salvation, this is why they ask God for the forgiveness of the sin of omission and the sin of commission.

It is either you have eternal life or not.

You get?

-GSW-