20/12/2021
So touching a story by Uncle Ebo Whyte I can simply relate to this story. It will all end in praise. Thank you Jesus
In the old days, one of our Christian brother’s was accused of a hit and run and jailed for 35 years. Let’s call him Fii. Fii was on his way to visit his family in Cape Coast, when he got to one of Cape Coast Secondary Schools, he realised the students had blocked the road. Fii thought the students were rioting so to save himself and time he did a u-turn to go and use another route. Immediately he turned the students shouted “that’s him “. Unknowing to him a white Peugeot had hit a student and run off and the student had died. And he, Fii was also using a white Peugeot, in the days when Peugeot cars weren’t common let alone a white one! And his U-turn was a confirmation to the students that he was the guilty party. He went to take shelter at the police station to avoid lynching, he was arraigned for court and eventually charged with the crime and jailed for 35 years. For a crime he didn’t commit. He wasn’t even in Cape Coast when it happened. We all thought “where is God and why will He allow this”?
15+ years later a new government comes he’s granted amnesty for having served more than half his term. In the 15+ years he had lost everything. You see, the more he protested his innocence the angrier people got at him and deserted him. They thought “have you become so depraved that you kill a human being and not regret it?”
So on the day he was released he was wondering where to go and what to do. He didn’t even know where his wife and children were.
He walked out of the prison and a car pulled up and the gentleman said to him “ the Lord sent me to come and pick you.”He drove Fii to a house in Dansoman and handed over the keys to the house and the car they arrived in to Fii. He said “the Lord directed me give these to you”.
Like Job, he lost it all and again like Job, he was restored in a day. But in between those days were 15+ years of pain, tears and a destroyed reputation.
Where is my God when it hurts? Well your God is closer than you think and He’s working it all together for your good. It’ll end in Praise, just continue to hold firm to His word and promises and let your life honour Him!
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