She is always in Church, wearing faded jeans, an old T-shirt
and slippers. She comes to clean and arrange the seats, decorate and clean the
pulpit whenever it is dirty.
For six years, she never missed a single Saturday coming to
clean the Church.
One Saturday, a young man walked into the Church while she
was still arranging the chairs. He went and sat down watching as the lady
was working.
He was impressed that a lady who looked quite beautiful even
in the old clothes and a scarf over her hair could be so dedicated to her work
in Church. He thought within himself that this was an unfortunate lady who
probably had no one take care of her schooling and could probably be an orange
seller or some petty trader struggling to make ends meet at the market stall.
He watched and within his heart felt he knew what God wanted him to do. When he
had felt a compulsion to come very early to Church, he had not understood but
now he thought he did.
He went back to his car and took out Naira notes. When the
lady finished her work and was about leaving, he called her and commended her
for her service and gave her the notes.
She respectfully declined the notes but he insisted pressing
it into her hands. He asked if she lived close so he could go drop her.
She thanked him and told him that her car was outside, but
he did not understand what she had just said. He walked her out determined to
find out all he could about this lady that God wanted him to help change her
level.
They walked out of the Church with him telling her where he
worked and how God had asked him to come early to Church that day and how he
believed God is directing him to help make a big difference in her life. He was
so busy talking he had not realized they had walked directly to a BMW X6 2017
limited Edition parked under trees in the parking lot.
The car made his one year old Benz look like a worn out
wheelbarrow.
The lady opened the driver’s door stepped in and handed over
her card to the man and said to him politely, _“I believe God sent you here for
a purpose, but I do not think it was to change my level, most likely it was to
change yours.”_
I am tempted to say it took a forklift to shut the young
man's mouth and move him from the place he was glued to as the lady drove off.
God had a purpose for bringing him to Church that morning and that purpose was
to teach him humility which he learned well.
Many times we think so highly of ourselves that where God
sends us to learn we go trying to teach.
We always imagine ourselves as teachers, never as students.
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