THE WAITING

Hey there!

How are you doing? I hope you’re doing good? If not, I pray that God fixes whatever it is that ails you. 

It’s another Guest feature day on the blog, and today I dragged one of my biggest fans in the entire world to feature on the blog. If you go through the blog, you’ll see a lot of comments from “Engr. Dani”, and today he’s doing more than just comment, he’s gisting us.

So, welcome to the gist.

"Praiseeeeee the Lorrdddddd!" That’s my momma each time she wants to give testimony in church; but truthfully, God deserves all the glory, and such reactions for his faithfulness. 

This is my own testimony.

After I graduated from school (University of Jos, 1st Set Mechanical Engineering), I was faced with the daunting question of what would be next for me. This was the dilemma; I loved my course but I hated the fact that I was going into the industry. This was based on my experience during my SIWES year where I saw factory workers working from 7 to 7 for meager salaries and I was like "Na so my own go be?!" My experience during SIWES changed my perception of the industry. So, when it was time for me to specialize, I went for the field in Engineering that had nothing to do with me working directly with my hands -Production Engineering. I did accounting, took some administration courses like management and other unrelated engineering courses and trust me, I enjoyed it. But I still felt like I had chosen an easy path and that made me very uncomfortable. I graduated from school with a huge phobia for the industry and was at a loss, thinking of where to go next.

After school came the job search; I got a job in a site before service, with very meager pay. I was able to manage it (thank God for my supportive parents, I for see shege). All the while, there was this constant fear in my head that I may not be able to achieve anything tangible on the path I had taken but I kept on telling God to watch my steps like He had been doing. 

The job at the site ended, and there was no work for me for about 4 months. I wasn't bothered because I felt I had another opportunity to land myself a job through NYSC.

NYSC came and I found myself in a Ministry (the most dormant place for a graduate Engineer). Omooo that one alone increased my insecurities from like 1 to 99 because I felt like I wasn't really doing anything with my life. I used the opportunity to enrolled at a Tech school to learn a skill (I had told God that I still wasn't going to the industry).

Omo this story long ooo, let me cut it short; I finished service and at the time, my only prayer was "God I need a job, help me...." If God was a man ehnn, He would have blocked his ears with muffs(lol) because, I too disturb am.... But all this while, I didn't know he was building me for something better.... Ladies and Gentlemen, I stayed for about 6 months with no tangible job after NYSC, but God was still providing for all my needs. How He did it? He just kept on connecting me to the right people. 

I don't think I'll be able to express God's well calculated push in my life in writing, (because I go just turn author like this) but this is what I want to leave for everyone reading this; God's faithfulness is the surest thing you can bank on. There's nothing He says that He won't do, that has been His trademark right from time and if we can bank on this, we can be sure that He'll come through for us; He kept coming for me in unexpected ways the entire time I was ‘jobless’.

Here’s something else I learned during that time, the answers God gives do not have to look like what we pray for but we can be sure that they’ll be just what we need; the entire time, God was doing things in me and building me in ways that didn’t seem to have anything to do with what I was praying for and because it wasn’t looking like what I was praying for, I didn’t really acknowledge it, it was only in retrospect that I was able to understand how God had been doing things in me during that waiting period; these are things I may not have gotten if I didn’t go through that period and if only for that, I am grateful for the time I had to wait.

Ohh yes! I got a job in the most unexpected fashion (in fact two jobs all in the same day, each one with working conditions that enable me combine both jobs). I felt like God was saying "you don too worry me, oyaa take 2 jobs before you give me ear problem". 

So, to everyone hoping on God for something, please just know that as long as you abide by His principles, He hears your prayers and He will answer.

Thank you so much my darling for sharing with us on the blog today, and thanks to you who is reading, I pray you learn a thing or two from his testimony.

See you next week!

Love,

Achenyo.