Temptation

Episode 21

The unknown man horned at the gate of a mansion.

The gate was opened gaining him entrance into the house. He parked the car and hopped out of the car. He dragged ben out and made him walk into the house while he followed behind.

The lights flickered and went off immediately, they stepped in.

The man led ben to a room, and sat him down. he left afterwards leaving ben all alone in the dark room.

Ben was aghasted, triggered by the vague, which made it impossible to see through. He couldn’t see his own reflection. More or less even anyone else.

He stared blankly at the open space before him.

His fear was battled with the overwhelming darkness that enveloped him.

A vivid memory of his good deeds in the past started to unfold like a filmstrip in his head.
He thought of his past, when he was a boy, the boy he knew himself to be.

A boy with a good heart and has a bright future, and most extensively, a devoted christian, which he was hitherto.

Enjoyment and fulfillment which he believed would last till he dies.

Is this how he gonna end it all?
What happened to his christianism?
His beliefs of God as the supreme God. The controller of the universe.

He once believed in God and he served him with his pious heart.

He was even the youth pastor then.
All was right with the world then, he’d less worries or rather no troubles.

Whats happening?
He lost his pious heart all of a sudden.
Would God ever forgive him his sins?
Tears had welled up in his eyes and were threatening to spill.

He blinked his eyes and they streamed down his face.

‘lord please forgive me. I knew i’ve sinned against you. My heart is far away from you lord, i’m nothing but an ungrateful sinner. Please forgive me my atrocities. Lord i’m sorry, i fell for the satanic temptation, i was beleagured by the sinful luxury world. I pursued the pleasures of the world and this is what it led me to’
he remembered the advice nancy gave him, when she realized, he dosen’t goest to church anymore.

“ben! What’s this you’re doing?, you’ve abandoned the work of God and you no more attend weekly activities in church, ben you’re backsliding, you’re once a youth pastor that every parents wished you were their son. They envied you. You were strong and powerful in christ and you’re devoted to him. I knew you to be a religious believer. Come to think of it, you were the one that made me gave my life to christ, you made me a born again, now, just take a look at yourself, you’ve started drinking recently, your life is now going astray, you better change for good. Stop your bad ways and stop galivanting seeking pleasures. Just yesterday, you were brought home from the stinking gutter. You’re now a laughing stock. You wouldn’t miss any friday night for club but you could miss sundays complaining that you’re fatigued from work, well i said my own, a word is enough for the wise”
nancy’s words ringed in his brain like a doorbell.

That was when he started it, he afterwards promised not to drink again.
He kept to the promise until recent.
But he couldn’t attend church services all because, he had no time to attend services.
Tears flowed freely from his eyes making him sneeze at intervals.

Nancy couldn’t have been in the hospital, if not for his uncontrolled lust.
Now, he’d murdered the devil herself.
His were just too weighty.

He hoped God would forgive him.

The door opened and someone entered, ben was unaware because the tears had obstructed his view.

Though the darkness still prevails.

He knew not when the person walked and stood beside him.

He was just drowned in thoughts.

He felt a hand placed on his shoulder and he suddenly jerked and sprung up as though he was being electrocuted.

He was frightened and scared that someone was with him but still he couldn’t make out the face of the person standing as they were in a total darkness.

The person switched on the lights, and ben quickly seized the opportunity and looked at the person’s face.
His jaw dropped as he saw who it was.