the musings of this nigerian gal

Activities, unfurling with each second, each minute and each hour. Coming at you from left and right, not letting up for you to draw a breath.

Classes, exams, church services, maintaining friendships, meetings, eating, sleeping, waking up.

Activities, responsibilities, roles, positions; these things have a way of putting pressure on us.

The motions of life can swirl us round and round till we become so addled you can’t tell the beginning apart from the end.

Where are you at?

Who are you?

Where do you belong?

It is like life throws a gauntlet and dares us to pick it.

But do you know our response is? “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”

These exams I’m presently writing are one of the most intense I have written. Somehow, I feel it’s glaring because recently it dawned on me that the spirit of excellence walks with me. So it was like the exams came with a smirk and said “show me what you’ve got.”

And if that wasn’t all, relationships and responsibilities came clamoring for my attention.

Yet every time I stare at the question, He teaches me what to write. He gives me the creativity and the ease to write.

There’s one difficulty I had always faced when writing exams. I find it difficult to express my thoughts intelligently. Yet, these exams, he looks into my eyes and I feel the words flow.

200 level exams gave me PTSD and I began to doubt my intelligence. Yet, these exams are the ones I feel most confident of.

Why? Because by my God, I leap over walls, and by my God I run through a troop. Because God is with me, God is for me, God is in me and God is through me as a mighty terrible one. Because my life is God’s personal canvas to show off on. Because Christ has died and has obtained for me everything good.

James said, “every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

Ephesians tells me that God’s power is towards me.

Romans announces to me that when God gave me Christ, He gave me everything needed for life and godliness.

So I will remember. Yes, I will remind my soul. I will steep my heart in the truth.

Because where I am at is in Christ and nothing, absolutely nothing can tear me from His hands, nor can anything separate me from His love. His beautiful, wild, endless love.