UNEXPECTED DISAPPOINTMENT

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 Unexpected Disappointment.

Today,I want to talk the Bible and pointing at vital lessons I understand from this story.

Once upon a time,there was a man who had a concubine,he had not met her family.In marriage,married women sometimes, get tired of certain things in while some run away,some stay back. So this concubine ran back home to her father's house and since she was not under the leadership of any man,she was free to do whatever she wished and then she started using what she had to get what she wanted,so they say.
She started one night stand.


Her lover came by for her and her father loved him so well that he never wanted him to leave and elongated his stay at his house. Eventually,he let go of them as the lover man also got tired of the stay back persuasion and they embarked on the journey back to the homeland of the man with his lover and his servants.

On their way back home,the night fell and they needed to take refuge somewhere. His servant advised that they pass the night when they arrived a particular country  but his master insisted that he cannot take refuge else where but in the house of God meaning with the children of God because he feels safer around them but he was totally wrong.
He was on the street seeking  for help till late night but no one responded to him except an elderly man who was returning late from his office. Having heard the story of this stranger, he took him in, entertained and nurtured him. He was eventually accommodated in the house of God after so much disappointment and he was happier.

In that same house of God was his utmost nightmare. So they wined,dined and were exchanging pleasantries when some persons within the house of God came to the house where he lodged and they wanted to have a carnal knowledge of him.,they wanted to have sex with a fellow man. So strange,he wondered and thought within himself. Men like himself wanting to do this?So from behind the closed doors (he refused to unlock the door) began negotiations as the Landlord begged them not to engage in such because the man was a stranger  and should be treated well but all his pleas fell on deafened ears, so he offered them his virgin daughter as they pressured him more but they refused and so they offered up this man's concubine.

She was eventually raped to death. In the agony of such distress,she dragged herself to the door of the house that harboured her lover and in the morning,her husband was about leaving the house not even in pursue of this concubine of his but he met her lifeless at the exit door.He was highly disappointed. His disappointment was more than he could so imagine. However,in helping the culprits in the house of God complete the evil they launched,he decided to take her home and then divided her into twelve parts to send them to each state of the federation.

In a bid to end this kind of callousness and for justice to prevail,the eleven states met centrally and decided to investigate the matter by inviting the state in which the evil was committed so that they could properly address the situation to avoid recurrence but the culprit state ignored the call and did not make any efforts to fish out the culprits. The Federating states decided to engage the culprit state in a war. Guess what!this state fought the war and was never remorseful but rather even boasted that they killed so many warriors from the eleven Federating states.

The situation weakened these eleven states so much more that they almost gave up on the fight for justice.One would have wondered why the evil doers seem to have prevailed with his weapons over the multitude for fighting a just course.The eleven states did sum up courage and fought against this one state with all the strength they had  and behold there was a monumental record of deaths amongst the culprit state.

Amongst the eleven states,were fatalities and also casualties among the culprit state. In the culprit state,a little over twenty five thousand people lost their lives as a result of the deeds of maybe less than fifty men. Over Forty thousand people lost their lives among the eleven Federating states for what they should have mutually corrected and kicked against together.
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Lessons

*To avoid the second wrong,collectively reject the first.For no reason should bad be called good and the earlier it is corrected the better for the society.

*Concubining and baby mamaship has never being right at any point in the history of the world. Doubt if the lover man would have given her as a sacrifice if he married her officially.

*What women are subdued to,their lives given to go for men?Little wonder,women fighting for liberation for ages.

* When there is something wrong in a system,fight the right persons who are engaged in the wrongs, do not kill the system because of few people,the system may never be back to shape.

*If you do not expect ,you won't be disappointed. Disappointments can come from any source regardless,always prepare for it and don't be expectant of anything from anyone no matter the level of relationship.

*When evil doers thrive,it does not mean that Nemesis would not catch up with them,it is a matter of time. Don't admire an evil person especially when it seems they prosper.

*God is God no matter what. He may prosper the evil and make them conquer,he is Almighty,known to him are his works from the foundation of the world. He cannot be queried.


Absolute trust in God is absolute.











SHALOM.

*Afolasade Odumuyiwa*
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