Finished

 I cannot in all honesty say I have had a good life. From as far back as I can remember, things have been rough.


Don't get me wrong, there have been spells where things were rosy and one enjoyed the finer things of life. But they were like rainfall in the savannah --- few and far in between.

These days, I do not look in the mirror, unless by accident. I am acquainted with the image I'd see: a balding, gaunt face with sunken eyes and hollow cheeks; ears that stick out and a crisscross of worry lines on the forehead. If ever I had any fat, my bones must have forgotten. The skin clings to them the way iron filing does to magnet. 

The only things I've got going is a wife who has not given up on me and encourages my faith (that things will change) and a job as the CSO of a factory producing polythene sheets.

Even the latter is under threat from my health condition.

All security men are expected to be in top form, more so, the Chief Security Officer. Sadly, that cannot be said of me.

I have been battling an illness that is both strange and embarrassing. Different physicians have given different diagnosis and prescriptions. Yet, the incontinence that began one mid-day without warning just would not go.

Wifey and I were watching TV, a rare thing these days. A paid programme came up: Moments of Victory.

The preacher caught my eye. He was around my age but looked far younger. The maintenance effect of money on him was obvious.

I was about to flip channels, did not want to watch anything that reminded me of all that I was not, when he announced his topic: Finished, and read from John 19.

I wondered what angle he'd come from. I felt that text referred to two things: the end of Jesus' ministry and life, plus the end of all the 
things humankind faced without a way out.

What he said blew me away.
"That exclamation meant the work is perfected; nothing can be added to it or subtracted."
What? The query jumped from my lips.
"Finished means Over. Done. Whatever is not in alignment needs to be shown that it is in disobedience."

I did not hear the other things he said...was mulling over that claim.

When he prayed for people at the end of the broadcast, I knelt down and echoed the Amen with all my heart.

That was four months ago. That incontinence ended that day.


Ecclesiastes 3: 14
I know that everything God does will last forever. You can't add anything to it or take anything away from it. And one thing God does is to make us stand in awe of Him.
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