Writers 
I remembered a scenario during my National Diploma in the polytechnic, I decided to quickly step out of the class to get a stapler from one of the cafes to staple my assignment. So while I got to one of the shops, their was this group of guys that were sited and gisting, one of them was all bragging and loudly vomiting the atrocity he committed last night, how he was able to disflower one of his girlfriends who had been refusing to allow him have his way.
According to him, he said, Thank God for the rain that fell last night, this girl was stuck and couldn't leave early when she came, so i seized the opportunity to pin her to my bed until she could not longer resist me, from the way he kept narrating the incident with so much details, you could see how proud and fulfilled he was.
Meanwhile on my own side I wasn't really bothered about what he was doing because it's normal among guys to discuss such matters, but I was irritated at how loud and detailed he was in the midst of the crowd while gisting with his group of guys. Now, as I stood there waiting for my turn to use the stapler cause other guys were there too, so many things began to run through my mind.
First, the lady in question, I said to myself, probably she is somewhere now, all feeling that she has a responsible guy not knowing she is just one among the many he is dating. And las las, she dun carry her virginity give this foolish boy.
Meanwhile there was something he said that moved me as well; he said the lady only permitted them to kiss and romance, but last night she couldn't bear the heat, so she gave way.
There's this passage in the Bible that says once the edge is broken, the serpent will strike.
These are reasons why I don't buy into negotiating with doing things that I know will someday make me fall. If you can't be with me and accept the fact that I can neither accept to embrace, kiss, or romance you, it is clear that we can't cope because my soul is worth more precious to me than compromising to the demand of the flesh.
With the shege I have encountered in the past, I am not ready to start explaining myself to God again and again 😅. Some of us are victims of sexual sin not because we lack the ability to stay away but because we have chosen to rebel against every route of discipline.
The second thing that came to my mind was the guy. I kept asking myself, how is it that this guy will be so bragging about how he fornicated last night? Like, the consciousness of I have sinned wasn't replicated in his tune or reaction at all, rather, he was proud. And I didn't blame him, why? Because it brought me to the third thing that I realised, which is our choice of friends.
While he was capping his bullshit, his friends were all hailing and celebrating him. They made it appear to look like it's a normal thing. And that alone made me realise how the choice of the people we walk or live with can affect our mindset. There are set of people we hang around with that the problem is not we, but the group of people we are interfacing with.
Probably the reason why it doesn't seem like your prayers are being answered is because of the kind of choice and the friends you have been walking with. God cannot answer your prayers when you are gallivanting with people that will continue to make you appear before him in betrayal. Yes, he is just and merciful, but he is not foolish and to be ridiculed. Let that sink.
Shalom!!!
#Gratitude
#BY THE LORD...
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