I choose to identify with this success story, the
workings of God.
In this days of high of dollar rise, there's also a high
rise of fame. It may seem oblique but the reality is here.
In a moment of economic recession, endorsements are just rolling
in by the day. Even companies feel they can do more.
So many has toiled and struggled for stardom, jumping from
one door to the other with pleas of been enfranchised, but just from the blues
comes an over-night sensation that captures our elitist minds. An astonishing
God-made dignified celebrity.
She may not have wanted it. She probably never dreamt for
this magnitude of accolade, but restored, recaptured, retraced and reinstated
is a lost but found glory.
Olajumoke is a story that has captured the public's
imagination, gracing covers of magazines and tabloids. Walking the ways of
great run-way fashion models. Signing the papers scribbled by moguls in the
economic and financial industry.
She is our very on "Slumdog millionaire".
Many has said so much about her sudden emergence but I stand
to say 'it's just God'. An over-night miracle you may call it but I dare you
argue that God was in it all the way.
Some may say she was fortunate. Some say it’s a coincidence.
Some have even wished they fall vindicated in such manner, hence the new trend
of fine-looking Agege bread sellers out there now (lol). But I choose to look
unto the bright side.
The bible says in Ecclesiastes 9:11 I have seen
something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the
strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to
the learned; but time and chance happen
to them all (NIV) then I say opportunities without preparation (mindset) equals
wastage.
At this point I have my questions:
What if Olajumoke woke up that morning with a simple and
meaningful confession of breakthrough? As God said to Moses by the burning
bush; what if her cries of suffering (omije) has been heard by God and her cup
of blessing is now full to be visited? What if she had sown a seed with
meekness unknowingly at a particular juncture of her life? What if her mother's
prayers were beginning to manifest? What if her lowly and meek nature directed
her steps to the right place at the right time?
Imagine the pressures she has gone through in life, the type
you thought she has gotten used to. Imagine what took her form Osun state to
Lagos; domestic matters that pronged her relationship with her hubby, hence my
reason for saying she is a “Breadseller turned Breadwinner”.
Imagine the competitive attacks she could have had hawking her bread from
streets to streets and harassments from fellow hawkers that could have
followed. Imagine when she had sat down by a street corner to sub over not
having sold well enough for the day to feed herself and her baby. Imagine when
she cried all night to experience a shift from her present form. Imagine, just
imagine….
We were not there at this times, but God who sees in the
dark knows how to reward in the open.
So before you judge her, before you put blame on what God is
doing in her life, before you develop a thick skin against her success, learn
from her meekness. Learn from her submissive nature. Learn from the abundance
of glory that surrounds her now.
True beauty is deeper than the skin. A pure heart and a good
spirit radiate true beauty and attract great success.
Speak a word every day to your future.
In all your ways acknowledge God.
Prepare yourself for the best to come. You may not how, you
may not know when but time and chance will happen to you also.
:Muyiwa Art-Bhadmos
T:@artbhadmos
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