Falling from Grace

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Research shows that an average sexual intercourse lasts a little over five minutes and if the man is a stallion or experiences a junkie ejaculation just twelve minutes.

Where am I going with this? It is such a short time of pleasure to put a lot of things on the line especially for those in the lime light and even especially for ordained individuals.

In recent times there's a growing rate of people falling from Grace, I watched a video of a popular Abuja pastor where he made an open confession to his congregation on how he cheated on his wife and also had a love child from that illicit affair.

What shocked me the most was the further revelation that he made regarding his wife. Pastor Joshua Iginla alleged that his wife cheated on him first and he referred to their child as an “unholy” child because the wife conceived her for another man.

Unholy child? What exactly makes an innocent child who had no hand in the way and manner he/she was conceived unholy? 

Mother taught me that the illicit act only is the sin and not the pregnancy nor the  baby that as a result and I believe her.

The pastor said further that he forgave his wife and protected her image when she fell from Grace; kept her bad behaviour away from the public however, he always nursed and planned his revenge. Man of God did your bible teach you that? 

True forgiveness is when you deal with the person as though what the person did to you never happened.

According to him, when he fell from Grace, his wife did not reciprocate the kindness that he showed her at her own fall rather she made his life unbearable and threatened to expose him to the world.

Pastor Joshua then took the bull by the horn and reported himself to his congregation in an open confession. Hero or zero? I cannot say but I know for sure that it must have been tough to put that out to the people who look up to him as a role model.

It must have been tough to go out there and admit to the people he counseled and reprimanded for committing certain sins that he fell hard into the same sin that he preached to them against.

This story reminds me of what a friend says all the time; NwaChukwu says that Christianity starts from the head and ends at the waist. The other half of the body does not understand Christianity, more like the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

The pleasure time is too short that it makes the scandal worthless. While at it, you feel like you are in paradise, the sweetness hits your medulla that you will start to think to yourself that even if you are caught in the act, you will not stop till the music ends but that is until the door is knocked down and you see your significant other standing right there; the tortilla will go deep inside the stomach and hide there for a long time. 

Is it really worth it? That is the big question and some have said yes that it is worth it because five minutes of good sex adds several years to one’s lifespan, really? Nothing upsets me like the disgrace that comes with being caught in the act of sexual immorality.

I pray for anyone reading this that when the temptation is high and the flesh is a willing party, think of the consequences and may you experience extreme dryness or deflection as the case may be. Can I get an Amen?