the musings of this nigerian gal

It’s been eight months.

Eight months of living my life without waking absurdly early to attend classes.

Eight months since the ASUU strike put a pause on the academics of people.

You must have heard all about it.

You also must have heard about it being called off on the 17th of October.

It came as a shock, I tell ya. As a good shock or bad shock? I don’t know. I’m someway stuck in the middle of both extremes.

Shuffling from one class to another, silencing my brain to take in the information the lecturers are droning out, getting disappointed when the class I had walked all the way for did not hold.

Some part of me is still waiting for somebody to wake me up and tell me it’s all been a dream.

Thinking about it all overwhelms me.

Thinking of how to balance it all — school work, fellowship responsibilities, career — with the person I have become after eight months pulls me in way over my head.

And then came CFI prayer meeting. And all this questions were laid bare. And answered.

And the answer was one.

Jesus.

When God gave Him to me, as stated in John 3:16, God added everything that I will need for life and godliness.

Meaning that everything I need to get through this phase, with everything intact and thrive in it has been provided for me in Jesus.

Paul said it this way: “In Him we live and move and have our being.”

The funny thing is that we humans like to carry anxieties and worries on our head. It gives us a sense of control. Instead of trading our anxieties for peace in the place of surrender.

Christ gave His life for us so that we can have life and live it in full.

It is pride to forgo the finished works of Christ all in the bid to take charge and fix it.

One of the advice Solomon gave to his son was to tie truth around his neck.

This is truth: that Christ died in your place, for your sins and problems, as you and He rose again victorious. And He is seated at the right hand of God, and you are with Him. And the honor, victory and blessing of His resurrection is upon you.

So stop letting the devil browbeat you on the flimsy ground of ignorance.

Christ has won it all. Stop living in defeat.