Dial - Season 2 - Episode 81

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 81

I shuddered with fear.
“Still on me?” I gasped. “Meaning I’m going to die?”

He didn’t take his hand from my shoulder.
“Listen to me very carefully now, Yao Biko,” he said calmly. “What you were doing…this Dial List thing…was very despicable in the sight of God. You had purposed in your heart that there was no God, and you were worshipping and leaning on your wealth. You were hurting young women, some quite irreparably. This made your soul covered with sin, and so it is your destiny to die young.”
We stared at each other, and this time the horror I felt was real. I was trembling, and sudden sweat had broken out all over my wrinkled body.

“Let’s say you’re right,” I said hollowly. “Am I still going to die?”
“That depends on you, son,” he said quietly. “I have been fasting and praying for you constantly. I called upon the name of the Lord to spare your life, but the spirit of death remained. That was when I knew I could not come to you as a man of God! You needed to be shocked out of your very skin to believe the evil around you. That is why I put the curse on you, to make you age, to bring you here finally and tell you the truth. What I did was meant to open your eyes to the fact that the world we live in is filled with forces we can’t control. You’ve experienced real horror, and now you see the grace of God. Choice is yours.”
“Am I going to die?” I asked fearfully, my eyes boring into him. “Am I still going to die young? Please, answer that! Don’t keep avoiding it! Answer me!”
“That depends on you, son,” he said quietly. “I believe that if you really come to the Lord, with a changed heart, and a heart that lives in His son, your life will be extended. However, if you still remain in your sin, and you leave this place…you will die.”
“Are we talking about repentance of sins here?” I asked hollowly.
“Not just repentance, Yao, but true repentance that leads to accepting the Lord into your heart. And then, when you have fully believed, I’ll baptize you, and the Lord will make you as clean as white linen.”

“But you can’t force me to repent! Isn’t it supposed to be free will? I’m still going to die!” I whispered painfully, tears bubbling in my eyes. “I’m still going to die!”
“No, you’re not, boy!” the Holy Man said sharply. “I can’t force you, yes, but few have been given the privilege of choice before death! Use your heart! You have a choice! No one can force you to accept the ways of the Lord! It has to be an individual choice as you say, Yao. And it has to be genuine. Do that, and you’ll be free from all curses, and armoured by all the good graces of God. It is absolutely up to you!”

“And until it happens I can’t leave here?” I asked numbly.