I know she left Church about eighteen years ago but I didn't know why. All efforts to reach her failed. I went to her house one evening and the house help came out to tell me she was not around. But I was hearing her voice. Since then, I didn't hear from her.
Five months ago she came back. Just last week, she stood on the altar to share her story.
According to her, eighteen years ago, her son was just about a year old. They came to Church that faithful Sunday morning and her son started to cry in Church and the next thing she heard from the Pastor was ....... take that baby outside. That was it! She said, she was very angry. She got up from where she was seated at the back, with her child clutched to her chest, hissed and walked out. She never came back. She started attending another Church.
She said, as the boy began to grow, he became very unruly and strange. From Junior School 3, he went into drugs. He left the house when he was about to write his WASCE. Every effort to rehabilitate him failed. She said, one day she was asking God where everything went wrong and the Holy Spirit began to bring her down the memory lane. The Holy Spirit said ......" do you remember the day you walked out of a service because you were told to take your child out. Your child was disturbing a whole service and you didn't see anything wrong in that but instead, you hissed and walked out in anger and left. You know the Pastor did not see you neither did he hear that you hissed, but I heard. Now go back to the same Church. That is your there and your son will be restored"
She said, I have come back fully to the house. The second Sunday I came, by the time I got back to the house, my son was at the gate looking unkempt but sober. I was scared. I called my younger brother in case he tried to attack me. He prostrated, asking me to forgive him. I couldn't believe it. He has since been taken to a rehab for proper treatment.
After hearing her testimony, I arrived at this truths ..... we must be careful how we handle issues in the house of God. If she went for a secular conference or seminar and her child was disturbing, no one would have to tell her to leave the hall before she did! We must keep asking ourselves this question ... the things I do in Church, will I do it in a decent environment? Like throwing used pampers all around the church compound, fighting the Sunday school teachers for correcting your child, refusing to allow your children stay in the children Church because the other children are "low class"???????
Don't play into the hands of Satan. The Church to me is the last place of correction. Getting angry with righteous instructions is not healthy for anyone of us. Be sober and vigilant. The devil is going about seeking who to devour. You will not be devoured. Your children will not be devoured in Jesus name.
Dolapo Adelakun
Damsel School of Ministry
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