The Priest Vow - Season 1 - Episode 27

4 years ago

The Priest Vow - Season 1 - Episode 27

I went back after a week and he was still there.

His words came but i can see his fear and struggle in his eyes.

I didn’t want him to speak but he started talking anyway.
“James, death is knocking faster than I bargained. It seems I can’t escape from it no matter how I try. Can you pray for me… I’m not asking you to pray for healing because if that was possible your prayers could have healed me. I’m asking you to pray to God to forgive my terrible deeds. I have nothing to boast off. Maybe I was a little foolish not to have seen my own stupidity. I feel so weak with every passing hour and I really do not want to die this way. It really doesn’t matter to me anymore where I die… I don’t care if is in prison or a free man. all I’m concerned about is never to end up as a terrible sinner. Please, I know I have being a pest, overlook my wrongs and pray for me before this terrifying darkness swallows me up.

I was happy as I gently took his hand and prayed for him.
Gumi responded to my every word and accepted Christ from that day.
I sang with him and read bible verses for him.
I kept visiting and he smile anytime he sees me.

He was looking pale, as white as a flake and was so weak.

There was strength in his voice and he seems stable with my every visit.

Our everyday word was centered on God. We get to laugh and throw jokes at each other then get back to studying the word.
I asked him if he wanted me to bring Joel, his son for him to see.

Gumi was quiet for sometime and later said he doesn’t want Joel to see him the way he was.

It will break his heart to see the face of the son he rejected.

On one of my visit he asked me to bring Joel and Nikita that he wants to see them.
I told Anna and she got Joel ready.
I drove them to the hospital where Gumi was.
He had tears rolling down his eyes when he set eyes on his son.

He was weak and couldn’t lift his hand to touch Joel. I assisted him in doing that.
He looked at Anna and began to apologise to her for the way he treated her that almost got her killed if not that God made me to be at the accident scene just in time.

Gumi died after a week. I knew within me that he did not have a long time to live.

God was only giving him several chance to come to Him and embraced the light.
I was happy he did at the end. He made peace with both God and man before passing away.
I wish he did it earlier but stubbornness and pride kept him captive but finally he broke free.

Gumi did not die a prisoner to sin or his past life. he died in freedom from chains and sickness through Christ.

Even after a month of his burial I still wish he has lived a little longer.

I visited the cemetery and stood at his burial ground wondering what life would have being like if I knew I had a brother earlier.

Maybe I could have saved him, he wouldn’t have gone deeper and deeper into drugs and sinful lifestyle.

I still appreciate the little moment we shared. It will linger in my memory forever.
I returned to my car and sat staring at nothing.
Tears clouded my eyes and I gave way for it to flow.

I sobbed quietly, releasing all the emotions I stored up.

Benjamin Cole also known as Gumi was gone. My twin and only brother was no more.
He has gone just like mother and father did. I’m left with his son Joel, my nephew.
I wish Gumi has lived differently and not the part he chose. He would have probably be alive.

But in all of this he embraced light and accepted salvation at the end.
It was better late than never.