Lost; My Rural Rugged Story

Recently, a friend sent my old NYSC pictures to me and it brought back memories, and today, I have seen a lot of pictures of people doing their POP today and I want to use this post to wish them congratulations and share one of my NYSC tales.

For the period of my NYSC, I was able to attend only one rural rugged and while going for the rural rugged, we (the group of people I was going with) took off from Ibadan and got to Iseyin in less than 2 hours. We were glad that we moved so fast. We were however not stopping at Iseyin. We were going to a village called Joloko in Okeho zone.

Unfortunately or fortunately for us, our driver didn't know the way to the village. We kept moving around in circles, we kept making U-turns, we kept calling people that had gone before us, and the driver kept complaining about the limited fuel in the bus and how the bus would soon stop moving. People on the bus became restless. Some even started saying things like "all these troubles all in the name of evangelism?".
We kept asking people and they kept directing us. Some directed us rightly, some wrongly, and others didn't even know. At some point, our phone network was too terrible to keep the communication gap open. We were lost!

But we kept going. At the end of the day, we got to our destination after 4 hours of being lost. It was one interesting day.

A throwback with my friends at Rural Rugged

Now, why am I sharing this?

One of the reasons we kept "merry-go-rounding", felt lost and actually became lost, was because our driver didn't know the way. Because he didn't know the exact place we were going, we were lost. He probably had an idea of the local government but he didn't know the EXACT PLACE.
This is exactly how some of us lives are; lost!

We have handed our lives over to a driver that doesn't know the way. Some of us are even driving our lives by ourselves (in ignorance) because we have an idea of what our society looks like.

God created us, He has the manual of our lives. He has the blueprint. He is the only driver that knows the EXACT PLACE.

All we need to do is let go and let God. I wish we all would really just let Jesus take the wheel of our lives.

The moment we allow the wrong driver to drive our lives, we become lost, we begin to waste time at one particular spot, and as such, get to our destination very late or not get there at all.

In my story, one of the reasons why we were able to find our way was because we kept the communication line open. The NCCF leaders that were on our bus kept calling those that have gone ahead of us for direction. For this inference, I see the need to always communicate with God and with those that are still strong in faith so that even when we go astray or miss our way, they can easily call us back and put us in order. I see the need to always talk, to always open up to others, and keep the communication line open. (Get destiny friends. Friends that would spur you to do more, that would spur you to be better and bring out the best in you. Friends that won't be afraid to tell you the truth and the wrong things you do.)

Above all, let God direct your life. Yield your life to Him. We are nothing but pencils in His hand. We are the clay and He is the potter. He is the vine, we are nothing but branches.

Enough of us living a 'directionless' life. Enough of us doing things only with head knowledge. Involve God in all your plans. He knows it all, He created all, let Him direct you.

Trust in God with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, and in all of your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. He would even make you get to the right destination and get there on time.

I have heard stories of different people having the wrong career, and living the wrong kind of life for a very long time before getting it right. Such people would be like "If I had known, I would have done this and that earlier"

If they had known, they would have involved God and He definitely would have placed them in the right places and at the right time. But they wasted so many years doing the wrong things.

"When you let God in early, He builds your life but when you let Him late, He repairs your life".

A life without God is a life with no direction.
Let us not waste away.
Let us put an end to a life with no direction.
Let go and let God.

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