The city had just recovered from an earthquake that wiped out millions of people.

It’s been 5 days since the earthquake happened. And the government had set up a refugee camp trying to connect survivors and families back while the military and police continued to work hard in searching for anyone who’s still alive or trapped.

Mia a 6 years old girl is trapped in a 12 story building, a Tech company previously focused in building robots before the earthquake had happened.

Tired from screaming and crying, hungry, she gets up trying to push the stone that had fallen on the doorway -still calling out to her mom who had brought her to her workplace before the disaster.

After series of failed trying, she walked into the factory where they had completed projects, and uncompleted projects. Some totally destroyed, and others with missing parts.

She puts her bag by the side and drags off a table that had fallen on one of the robots. Pulls the robot out to an open space and turns it to the back.

The robot had a tag “Sony”.

But for some reason wouldn’t come on when she tries to turn it on.

Seeing that the robot had broken some part of it’s body, Mia thinks of how to couple it up and make it work.

She looks up to her left and notices a pink flower attached to a rope, grabs it and used it to tie the robot, making the right arm and body stick back together.

Best to her knowledge, it was the only way to make the right arms stick back and not fall out when she makes it stand.

Thinking of how best to bring it on, she goes to the telecommunications department where her mom previously worked and picks up an iPad from the floor among the ones scattered on the floor and returns back to the robot.

The iPads are usually used to configure the robots for seamless operations and configurations.

She then configured the iPad on the chest side of the robot and turned it on. To her surprise, it worked!

She was happy she did it.

The robot stood up on its feet…

“Hi! I’m Sony, what’s your name ?”

With her faint tired voice, she says “Mia”.

“How can I help you today Mia?”

Mia then narrates what had happened to the best of her knowledge to Sony.

“Okay Mia, I’ll watch over you but for the main time, I’ll send an 🆘 emergency message to get help”.

After two hours, the Police gets to the building took Mia and Sony out.

Everyone was amazed when the robot narrated what Mia had done.

“Hey Mia, grab the hands of your bot” one of the cops says. We’re going to make this go viral!.

“I don’t even know what to do, I don’t think I have the courage, I’m scared, what if she says no? What if she hisses and snubs me? Or even raise her hands on me? Nah I don’t think I want to do this.”

“You can Ali! You can do this!” Says one of his friends as they argue about Ali summoning courage to approach his school crush.

“I’ve never talked to a girl, I don’t know the right words to say, I don’t know how to express my self or my feelings, Valentine is in few days and I feel it’s such a perfect time to do this but I can’t even summon the courage. What if I get rejected?”

Ali continues to lament in frustration as he walks side by side in the balcony of his class room.

School had just closed for the day and Ali and his friends were hanging around waiting for their evening lesson tutor before returning to the hostel.

“Well that’s the worst that can happen! She says NO, and then you move on with your life! Like nothing happened. I don’t understand why you fear being rejected or think you’re not good enough”.

Daniel replies, as he continues to persuade Ali.

“No, you don’t get it, I don’t fear rejection but I just think I’m not good enough. I’m the least in the class and not regarded as someone bright, I’m the least in my family, and my family is the least in my community. You think about all these for a moment and tell me why any lady on earth would want to have anything to do with someone like me. In-fact, the only thing I……”

“Ali! Ali! Ali!, look!”

Obed cuts in while he was still speaking.

“She’s approaching us with her friends! It’s your perfect time to ask her on a date!”

“What!! Date?! Please noooo. I’m not doing this today.” says Ali.

“Yes Date! You’ve got to grow up bro!” Daniel says as he shakes Ali by his shoulders.

As Mariam and her friends walked by, Ali’s friends fastened their eyes on him giving him signals to make the move. But he was just smiling, sweating profusely and shaking.

Without wasting time, Obed walks up to them with so much confidence, smiling….

“Hello girls, can I please borrow your friend Mariam for a minute ?”

The girls looked at themselves and at Mariam.

“Yeah sure” Mariam says

“Okay, We’ll wait for you downstairs” they echoed.

Obed takes her by the hand to the side and started engaging her in a conversation.

“What is he doing?! What is he telling her ?!” Ali asks, as he continues to pant.

Obed walks up to the guys leaving Mariam by the side and signaled Ali to approach her now.

“I’ve just told her you’ve got something to say, I’ve made it easy for you and she’s waiting.”

“Go!!!” The rest of the guys screamed silently.

Ali walks up to her, gathering his words together, swallowing saliva and sweating.

“Hey, hmmm, so I, hmmm, I’m not sure how you’d feel about this, hmmm”

Thinking of how to articulate his words….

“Hmm I just wanted to know how you’re doing?”

“Is that all you wanted to say to me ?” Mariam asks smiling at him.

“Well, no, yes, I mean no, I, hmmm want to know what you’d be doing tomorrow evening”

“Tomorrow’s Friday and I think I’ll be free after class and hanging out with the girls”

“Oh, great! I was wondering if, hmmm you’d…”

Scratching his head, he continued trying to articulate his words

“… if you’d be free to go on a date with me”

“A date ? Yeah sure!” Mariam replies still smiling and amused by his actings.

“okay great, I’ll meet you here same time tomorrow” Ali says

“Perfect!” Mariam agrees as she walks away.

“Yes !! Yes!! Yes!! Yes!! Yes!! I did it! I did it! I did it!”

Ali screams as he walks back to his friends.

“She said yes, we’ve got a date tomorrow and we’ll meet here!” He says excitedly.

“Well did you loose any part of your body after talking to her now ?” Daniel asks jokingly.

“Hahaha of course not! Thank you so much guys! Now I need to think of a perfect gift for her tomorrow “

“Gift? Hahahaha are you joking?” Obed asks him?

“Do you still even have provisions for yourself in the hostel? Where will you get the money from ? You yourself acknowledged you’re broke earlier!”

“Hmmm, I know a place called The Rose Farm where you can get rose flowers, its just a block or two away from here” Daniel says.

“Well, let’s go now!” Ali drags him by the hand.

“No, I can’t go at the moment, I’ll give you a description and it shouldn’t take you more than 5 mins to be there”

Ali sets out towards the rose farm immediately.

Getting there, it was a cool, quite environment with birds chirping in the trees.

“Wow! So many beautiful flowers here. Very beautiful and quite. Perhaps I should bring her here tomorrow”

He thought to himself as he plucks the number of rose flowers he wants

Suddenly a monkey picks up his bag from the floor and runs on the pathway with it.

“Hey! Bring that back! Please!”

He runs after it with the flowers in his hands.

“I don’t have bananas in there!”

Now sweating and tired of running, he sat on the floor and watched the monkey climb a tree with his bag and passes it among other monkeys.

“What do I do? I have my school stuffs in there!”

He says to himself as he stands up.

Suddenly he hears a soothing voice calls his name

“Ali…”

“Huh?! Who’s there!”

The voice calls him repeatedly

“Ali….”

“Obed! Daniel! is that you ?. Don’t play pranks on me please”

“Ali….” “Thou Mighty Man of Valor”

The voice says slowly.

Ali looks up, down and couldn’t tell who was speaking. He turns backwards and saw a human figure with a red garment walking away from him.

“Hey Who are you ?”

“Can you help me get my bag from the monkeys”

Ali asks, still concerned about his bag.

“Come” the voice says to him.

scared and confused he thought of what had happened earlier in school.

“Daniel says I have to grow up and be courageous!”

He walks towards the Angel of the Lord and asks again.

“Who are you ? And how can I help you? How do you know my name ?”

“I have known you before you were born” the Angel replies.

“It is time.”

“Time for what? See, I don’t want no troubles, what do you mean know me before I was born? Who are you again I ask ?”

Not answering his questions, the Angel continues…

“Ali, thou art mighty man of valor and it’s time to fulfil destiny”

“Destiny ? What do you mean?, why do you call me mighty man of valor? I am nothing but from a poor family in a poor community and also the least in my class. What is mighty about all of that?”

Ignoring his questions again the Angel continues…

“You have been chosen before birth, to deliver your community”

“Hahahahah you’re a joke ?! Me ? Hahahaha chosen by who ? God ? Why would He chose me ?. And deliver them from what exactly ? I’m not going to to let you ruin my plans”

He picks up his flowers and turns back to walk away, laughing over the words of the Angel.

After walking for some minutes and not far away he turns back and asks….

“Can you just help me get my…..”

Surprised at the sudden disappearance of the Angel and the appearance of his bag before him on the floor he asks…

“What ? My bag ? How did it get here.”

Ali grabs the bag and runs off back to the hostel.

Lying on his bed with eyes gazed up at the ceiling, he pondered at what had happened earlier and the words of the Angel continued to echo through his mind.

“Ali”

“Thou Mighty Man of Valor”.

I think I just met the happiest person in the world!

It had just stopped raining and the sky still drizzling; I’ve just had a wonderful service in church I thought to myself as I drive along the Tafawa Balewa express way in Abuja singing along to the song playing from my car stereo.

“Jesus Iyehhhhh, you have done it again! Jesus Iyehhhhh, in your special way, What was impossible, you’ve made possible, Jesus Iyehhhhh.”

Reflecting on the wonders of God in my life and how impactful the service was, I lowered the song playing in the background and decided to give a deep thought on the sermon that was taught that day.

“The Hidden Wisdom of God” I began to reflect on how God’s wisdom is so powerful and multilayered that even when we think it’s all over in our lives or situation, God displays another angle of his wisdom.

“What a joy this is!” I said within me, as I continued to ponder on God’s unpredictable wisdom. I couldn’t tell why I was feeling this way like I had just encountered Jesus Christ for the first time; but oh dear! It was such a good feeling.

As I continued driving, increasing the volume of the song, I decided to have a quick stop at Market Square to get some fruits when I saw this lady with four kids just by the junction under the showering rain begging for alms.

This brought an abrupt halt to my joy and singing as I wondered what could have gone wrong for this family. It made me started to think on a flip side of life and God.

Why am I so blessed, full of wealth, and no pain or misery yet there’s a family who can’t even feed themselves but have to stand under the rain to beg for alms. “Does this make God bias or unjust ?” I thought to myself, “Why does God allow such things to happen ?, Is he only concerned about those who are in church and are christians?, doesn’t this make him a selfish God and contradicts his mercies?”

As I continued to ask myself so many Why’s- a voice spoke silently: “This is why I have raised you”. “Who said that?!” I asked, “where did that voice come from?”

As I began to ask these questions, a sudden nudge came from within me to get down from the car and go into the mall to get food for them.

“What if they’re not hungry?” “What if they reject my food?” Perhaps I should just mind my business, get my fruits and leave I thought. But the feelings kept getting strong and I heard the voice again said to me “Do it Prince, this is what I’ve raised you for”.

I went into the mall grabbed some fast food, snacks, drinks and fruits and walked towards them to give it to her. I could still hear a side voice telling me what if she rejects this. But I didn’t let that stop me.

“Hello ma, Good Morning, I’ve just closed from church and came to grab some fruits and I though to get you and the kids these”

“Oh Morning my son!” I could see her wrinkled face smiling slowly as I stretched out the bags to her.

“You’re God sent!” She said excitedly.

“My kids and I had just finished our last food yesterday and not knowing where our next meal would come from next, I knelt down and prayed to God, telling him I was going to do something I had never done in my entire life- To go on the streets and beg so my kids would get food. I asked God to make this a success for me as I have no other one to turn to”

She cried so much and I could see her joy in her tears as she kept saying “He heard me!” “He heard me!” “Elroi, Elroi, Elroi, you heard me!”

She asked to pray for me and I agreed. I knelt down and closed my eyes as I wouldn’t let passers and cars passing by to distract me from an heavenly blessing.

She wouldn’t stop saying thank you to me for providing for them. So I went inside to get more provisions, 5 bags of rice, groundnut oils, beans, spaghetti, Cartons of noodles, snacks for the kids and other provisions.

I rolled the cart towards my car and offered to take them home with the things I bought.

She lied on the floor singing and worshiping God in her dialect. She couldn’t believe her eyes that God had heard her prayers and sent a total stranger to her.

As I drive towards her home, I couldn’t help my joy but to express my excitement with a worship song! All the questions I previously asked God left my mind as I pondered on the reply I got. “This is why I have raised you”. “Thank you” I said within me with tears rolling from my eyes.

After dropping her off with the provisions, I offered to give the kids scholarships till they finish their education.

Without letting the words go out of my mouth, she rolled on the wet floor screaming “Jesus, Jesus Jesus Jesus” and continued raining prayers on me.

I gave her my contact and left. As I drove home, I couldn’t help but to reflect on what had just happen. And this quickly reminded me of the sermon that was preached in church. “The Hidden Wisdom of God”. I kept on wondering how God could have heard her prayers and ignited me to take that exact route on my way home and also how he made me stop to get fruits just to meet this family.

“My Fruits!!!”

Amazingly I forgot to get the fruits that had made me me stopped. “This was never about my fruits” I said to my self. God just wanted to connect me with that family.

“What took you so long?” My sister asked as I got home.

Smiling, I replied: “I think I just met the happiest person in the world!”