Metempsychosis

Metempsychosis

Like her Mother-in-law, She had four girls.

When she had the last one, her mother in-law had a chat with her

“My daughter, I know you desperately want a boy but you will not get one unless you wait for five years before trying again. This was how I gave birth to your husband after having four girls! My mother in law at the time also counselled me on what to do and when I did it I got the desired result”

She had no choice but to listen and follow this counsel.

She had fasted and prayed to have a son to no avail.

If wisdom as they said laid in the bosom of the elders, it was high time she borrowed some.

She waited five years and it worked.

She was delivered of a baby boy, a spitting image of his father.

He bore his Father’s birthmark, walked, talked and even sat like him.

It was a wonder!

Her husband was also a spitting image of his father

She didn’t pay much attention to the whole episode until her father-in-law died.

Her father-in-law had nine and a half fingers

The pinkie finger on his left hand was said to have been accidentally chopped off in a farming accident on the day his grandfather died

Her husband also lost half of the pinkie finger on his own left hand on the day his grandfather died

As soon as her husband was given the news of his Father’s demise that fateful afternoon, he drove straight home from work and picked her up and took her home. His father’s house was a few kilometers away and he needed to be there to receive condolence visitors

She convinced him that it would be best to also pick the children up from school once and for all, because they might be too busy to do so later in the afternoon.

He agreed.

When they got to the children’s school, everywhere was in disarray.

One of the children had gone to play with the swing and gotten his pinkie finger chopped off, the teachers were running helter-skelter.

She knew instinctively it would be her son.

And so it turned out to be!

Her husband lost it

The teachers begged

Instead of going to his late father’s house

They drove straight to the hospital

Long story short

Her son’s pinkie finger on the left hand was cut in half on the day his grandfather died!

His mother in-law was not surprised

She said she had noticed that the grandfather in the family always reincarnated themselves in their grandsons

The coincidences were too glaring for her to doubt the conclusion

The problem was her husband’s grandfather was a polygamist

So was her husband’s father

She was her husband’s third wife

Though she was the one he lived with, he had two previous wives whom he had divorced

He also had a lot of side chicks and one baby mama

Though it breaks her heart to admit it

She was not happily married

But she stayed with her husband because of her children and because she was sure if she left another woman would simply move in and make her children’s life miserable

She was determined to raise up her son to do better than that

She wanted him to cherish women and treat them with love and respect

She wanted him to marry only one wife and be faithful to her

She wanted to break the vicious cycle

But how?

She went to a prophet

One of those uniformed cults where soothsayers foretell the future

One of their soothsayers had gone into a trance

She quickly went for consultation

What should she do?

She was told the pattern of the boy’s life had been set

He would be a successful man with many women all around him out of which he would marry at least three

She understood what the soothsayer said

Her son would have many daughters like his father did

He would marry at least three wives

What can she do to change this outcome?

The soothsayer said nothing could be done to change her son’s future

He would be just like his Father

He was reincarnated to live his life in that cycle

She couldn’t believe it

Does it mean her son have no choice in the matter?

His future is set and cannot be changed!

How very strange?

After going to four different places for consultation without any headway

She accepted her fate

Her son grew and gained admission into the university

Then the unthinkable happened

He got born again!

She didn’t understand it at first

Most of the people she knew who claimed to be born again were not so different from other people

But her son was very different

He changed

Her son didn’t have a girlfriend until he graduated from the University

When her son clocked 25, he married one of the sisters from his church

Her son’s first child was a boy,

His second child was also a boy!

She had kept a detailed dairy of all the prophecies she was given by the prophets and soothsayers several years before

Nothing in the diary matches with the reality in her son’s life

How come?

She invited her son for a meeting and told him everything

She wanted to know how he changed the reality she sought to change to no avail

He listened to her incredulously

She had never mentioned her observations to him before

He never gave it a thought

He just became Born Again and followed Jesus in the way

He didn’t even think about such a thing

Jesus made him a new creature and gave him a different reality!

His mother gave her life to Christ afterwards

Jesus gave her what she sought with tears without asking her for a penny!

 

PS: The entire events chronicled in this story happened in Ibadan, Oyo State

I have heard of many stories regarding reincarnation

Those stories have no place in the reality of the children of resurrection

New creations are not affected by history

New creations make history

If you are reading this and you are concerned or convinced you were reincarnated

You have believed the lie of the devil

The day you became Born Again, you were given a new name and a brand new destiny in Christ Jesus

Jettison that belief right now

It will continue to affect your life if you don’t ditch it

Ask the Holy Spirit to purge you of such beliefs and thoughts

Behold All things have become new!