Run From Red Flags

A pastor got a distress call from Port Harcourt

The lady who called him was in a serious dilemma

What happened?

It was her wedding day.

After the joining and reception, she and her husband retired to a hotel for their honeymoon

They rested a bit and consummated the union

After the consummation, she fell asleep.

When she woke up at about 9pm, her husband was not by her side.

Where could he have gone?

She waited for a while and then decided he must have gone to thank some of their guests who were lodged in the same hotel with them for the wedding ceremony.

She felt it would be appropriate for her to check on them too, and thank them because most of them would be checking out very early the next morning.

She dressed up and took the elevator to the ground floor.

She knew the room number of the best man, her husband's best friend.

She walked there eagerly

When she got there, she saw something that shocked her to the core

Her husband and the best man were both naked and

doing the unthinkable

She screamed and fainted.

They rushed her back to her room with the hotel staff's support

They lied that she must have been overwhelmed by the wedding activities

She eventually regained consciousness

Her husband told her not to shout or tell anybody what she witnessed.

He said he was saying farewell to a partner who had stood by him for many years, and it was not meant for her to witness.

Side note: A strong mindset would have called off the whole sham right there and without any sentiment.

A weak mindset would think, "Am I at fault?" "Is something wrong with me?" "What will people say?" "My marriage is over on day one!"

She could not unsee what she had seen, and embarrassing herself by calling attention to it was not a comfortable thing.

She lay on the bed all night, weighing her options.

She couldn't even imagine him touching her again or even regarding him as her husband.

He was irritating to her in every way

This was when she started scrolling through her phone, and she saw this pastor on X.

A random pastor who didn't know her from Adam.

She decided to talk to him and share the challenge she was facing.

She reached out, and the pastor picked up her call

They talked for a while

The pastor told her she has to leave the marriage.

She said there must be a path to redemption for her husband through the Holy Spirit

The pastor said, In his experience, it is best to leave people with certain sexual preferences alone than try to change them because their choice is innate and it is up to them to turn their lives around or leave it as it is.

She said she would really like the pastor to pray for her husband and deliver him from the spirit that was troubling him.

The pastor told her to give the phone to her husband.

Her husband appreciated the pastor's call and said the sinner's prayer

The wife believed he had now turned a new leaf, and she resumed sexual relations with him

She got pregnant.

One day, she went to the office and took ill due to the pregnancy. The doctor recommended bed rest.

She returned home earlier than usual, used her key to access their flat through the rear exit, and discovered her husband with another young man on her matrimonial bed, doing the unthinkable.

She packed her bags that day and left the union.

She called the pastor to share what she saw. The pastor was shocked.

The pastor told her a woman had written to him asking him to talk to her son, who was exhibiting certain strange sexual behavior.

The pastor said he called her husband, believing he had been cured, and asked him to help counsel the young man due to his previous experience.

It was that young man that the wife caught her husband with.

PS: Certain afflictions are a result of weak-mindedness. The weak do cruel things in the name of being unable to control themselves or being unable to help themselves.

The strong train themselves not to yield to weak impulses, and they take ownership of their thinking process and decision-making parameters.

Distance yourself from weak minded people, they will hurt you over and over again.

PS: Who remembered that episode of Game of Thrones in which King Joffrey Baratheon was in his full display of cruelness in public only to get poisoned out of nowhere?

He was a weak king.

When you give weak people power, they use it in the most offensive manner.

The only response to weakness is strength.

I hate poison but I delighted in the manner of his death while I watched.

-GSW-