Fix or Die

The phone rings at midnight! It's Chelsea calling. A young teenager and a friend. Jerry pick the call.

“Hello Jerry!”

“Yes, Chelsea. How are you?” replied Jerry.

“I want to die!”

 “I can't take it anymore.”

“I am taking these pills and die.”

“Is there any reason to live? Why do I have more stress than smiling? Does true love exist? Why are men so wicked? He has used me, and now he leaves me for another lady? After all this time, really?”

“Please don't do that, Chelsea.”

 “Listen to me for a little while.”

“Can we talk?” replied Jerry

“What can we talk about in this? Unless he calls me, I won't listen to any talk.” She replies and hangs the phone.

Jerry tries to call back but in vain. He calls a close friend to Chelsea, but unfortunately, the friend has no information about what is happening. "Please, please, Blessing! I know it's very late in the night, but please do me a favor, go check on Chelsea, for she is depressed."

Chelsea had a relationship with Mark. It was her first experience in a love relationship.  It was an amazing encounter with lots of love, curdling, partying, and happiness. This relationship all started three two years ago. A film company had invited recruits for an interview in a plan to film a short movie. Chelsea saw the advert and was interested. On sending her application and contact details, she got a call to attend an interview. On the day of the interview, Chelsea couldn't get the fare. She later gets a call.

"It Mark a member of SMG production crew. Where are you?"

"I am sorry I won't make it. I don't have the fare." Replied Chelsea.

"How much does it cost? I will send it to your phone and make sure you come okay?" said Mark.

"Okay, sir!" replied Chelsea.

Little did she know this was the beginning of something intimate?

On reaching the venue, there was no interview, Instead Chelsea was tasked to an acting scene, and luckily she performed well. The phone conversation went on a notch higher in the latter-day. Mark and Chelsea used to communicate through WhatsApp and calls. So Chelsea asked. "Thank you so much for all your support. I would like to know, sir, what do you want from me?" "I need you! You are so beautiful and amazing. I want you to be my girlfriend," replied Mark. Mark's audacity to face Chelsea and tell her blankly on matters of love stole her heart and the fall. The More they talked, the deeper she fell in love. The love grew, and they had intercourse, exchanged gifts, and she helped mark to have self-esteem and better his work. After two years of intimacy, then boom! Mark gets a new girlfriend, throws Chelsea away, and runs for a new catch. "It's over! I don't love you anymore." That was her statement. And as Chelsea tried to find a reason, He blocks her calls and puts pictures of his new girlfriend on WhatsApp status with sexy love quotes and tags Chelsea. This act is the origin of her depression.

Blessing hurries and gets to Chelsea's family home. She knocks, but no response, and she pushes the gate open and rushes for the door. "Chelsea! Where are you!" shouts Blessing. It seems she was alone at home. She dashes for her bedroom and finds Chelsea convulsing on the floor. "Hello, Jerry! Chelsea is dying; she took the drugs! Please, what can we do?" she called through my phone. "Please make her by her sides and keep the body airway system open. Then keep on monitoring her as we try and call an ambulance." Jerry then kneels in his house and makes a prayer for Chelsea.

After about 15 minutes, Blessing calls again. "Jerry! Oh, we thank God she has regained consciousness though she is week and still crying." "Glory to God! Please get her the phone so that I can talk to her." Blessing hands over her phone to Chelsea.

"Hello, Chelsea!"

"I want you to listen to me now. Would you be afraid to meet God?" I asked.

"Yes!" she replied.

"Why so?" Asked Jerry.

Chelsea looks back in her life and responds. "Because of all the terrifying encounters in my life. How can He be cruel to take my mum and dad away while I was very young? All the terrifying stories in the bible reveal, too, that He is very cruel. See how he drowned all people except only eight in the genesis story. And all the reference to the horror of hell. Leave alone the cruel human acts like what I just experienced. If there is a god, I am sure he'll be someone like Mark" I believe that deep inside you, there is some desire to believe in God and that what sent you to search him and get the perception that you are talking about.

"Do you wish sometimes you could believe in Him?" Jerry asked again. "

Yes! But I don't know how," she replied.

"I know of no greater happiness than to be in the company of trusted and trusting friends. I am here because you trust me, right?" Jerry asked.

"Yes!" She replied.

"When you look at me and my life. Do you see anything adorable?" Jerry asked

"Of course yes! You have a happy life. You have your business and dedicate your love to those whom you love." Replied Chelsea.

"You see! All that which you stated are a gift from God. Satan's studied purpose is to persuade angels and men that God is not worthy of our faith and love. He has pictured God as a harsh, demanding tyrant who lays arbitrary requirements upon His people to show His authority and test their willingness to obey. But if God is as Satan has pictured him. How easily could He have allowed you to die just a few moments ago and accomplish anything he wanted through you through someone else? How easily He could have manipulated your mind and force you to obey. But love and trust, the qualities that God desires most, are not produced by force – not even by God himself."  

"That is why instead of forcing or destroying, God took His case into court. To prove the righteousness of his cause, to demonstrate that his way of governing the universe was the best for all concerned, God humbly submitted His character to the investigation and judgment of His Creatures. The Good News is that He won the case. He won it for you and me. Though all of us should let Him down, God cannot lose his case. He has already won! The universe has conceded that the evidence is on His side, that the devil lied in his case. Even so, the devil still lies to us; it shows Him as a tyrant. If He did it to me, He could do it to you too. You are worthy in His sight, and He loves you. Pick up yourself, and as friends, let's walk this walk together. Promise me that we will walk together!"

"Thank you so much, Jerry! I didn't see Him the way you shared it with me. I now know that Mark was a Satan agent, and I won't allow him to make me see God as a tyrant. I promise to share with you and walk this journey together. "Replied Chelsea.

Today Chelsea is celebrating is months in her journey to recovery. She sees a hopeful future. She has broken all chains of connection to her past, and she sees her worth and value more than before. A second-year student in University and She says, "If it were not for God, I would be awaiting hell fire sorrowful eternally. But it's not so anymore."