On my way back from church, this first Sunday in Jan. 2021. I decided to take a walk home following a quiet street not far from the church and my house and on the quiet street that leads to the major road where I live, a group of children where on their way back home too, obviously from their own church. The noise they were making behind me was pleasant as it kept me company and warm. I turned to steal a glance at them.

There were two young girls probably 7 and 8 years or there about and their young but older teenage sister, maybe 13. Matured and very beautiful.

They were chatting nicely and happily behind me, the two little girls started running, obviously they must have sighted their house and suddenly the teenage girl said with a loud voice, “without me, you cannot open the door because I have the key. So you are just running.” 

(She said the “just running” with a voice that shows that it was a fruitless effort.)

She said it with a note of confidence and finality in her voice. There was this authority in the way she announced it with a gentle but definite voice. Then her little sisters drew back to her. After few minutes, they started running again and she announced, ” without me, you can not enter, so you are just running for running, just for running”.

 Then again, the little ones, drew back to her. This they did for few more times or so and she kept announcing with a loud voice,  “without me you cannot enter! I have the key!

 Then the Holy spirit asked me, ” Who does she sound like?”

Then I told myself that her words sounds so much like the words of Jesus, #John 15:5  ….without me, ye can do nothing#.

I smiled and listened to the discussion the Holy spirit was bringing up. At this point, they have caught up with me and I turned with a smile on my face and took a good look at the three of them. And the lord continued speaking within me and I was enjoying every bit of it.

  Then I noticed that there was a woman and a little boy ahead of me but a bit far. Then I heard the teenage girl say again… “Mummy and Ire are just running for nothing. Without me, they cannot enter.”

At this point a man was passing by and heard her, he laughed a bit and shook his head and I felt that probably he got the message that the girl was rechoing almost the same words of Jesus. “Without me, you cannot enter”.

Then I noticed the woman ahead was her mom. At this time, her two little sisters have gotten the message and stopped running. They were now steadily walking by her side. No more running. Then the younger of the two girls said quietly, “Mummy and Ire, they are just running, they don’t know that without my big sister, they cannot enter”.

I told myself that the mother should have known better and the Holy spirit replied me asking, ” How many of you know better?”.

The Holy spirit took over and ministerd to me, a whole lesson of my 2021 future endeavours and efforts. (Time will not permit me to share all.) But Let me ask you friends, do you know that if you start any business run now, or relationship run, or academic or ministerial run or anything at all without Him. You cannot open the door of success when you get there? Because He alone has the key and without Him, ye can do nothing! You will just be running for running sake. It’s called rat race.

Few steps ahead, the mother stopped at their black gate ahead and waited till the custodian of the key arrived. She stood under the sun, stranded till the teenage girl arrived. I took a good look at the faces of the beautiful girls the lord used to teach me, smiled at them and passed, headed for my own house with a lot of lessons learnt from the family.

Pls don’t just be running in 2021, without Jesus you cannot open any door.

Wait on God, move only when He moves, stay by His side, walk with Him.

For without Him ye can do nothing

Shalom.