Resumo de The Reward Of Obedience

The Reward Of Obedience

Author: Nathaniel Oluseye
Copywrite: 2006
Obinna was the only child of his parents, after the fourteen years of their marriage. He was a child born in a family without a silver spoon. His parents love him most since he was the only apple of their parent. His family was one of those families that lived from mouth to hands, in their rural settlement, a village called, ?Obaseki?. The village was popularly called a nickname given to it by the occupants of their neighbouring communities, ?Ahoro?, a word borrowed from the language of the other tribes of people in their part of the world, ?Yoruba?. The name was interpreted as a desolate and deserted place, a place where no one could neither sojourn because many social amenities were deprived of it, such as; portable pipe-borne water, electricity, health care centers, good tarred motorable roads, marketable environment, schools and e.t.c
In spite of the poor financial background of Obinna?s parents, they still struggled to send him to the missionary school in the town near them. A school which most of its student were from well to do families, but since his parents knew how so much important child education was, and for the fact that their own parents were unable to send them, they had made up their mind, that any number of children God bless them with, is going to be educated, either they have much on them or not. Hoping that no knowledge acquired is a waist and that one-day, sooner or later they shall reap the great reward of educating their son.
Unlike other children, Obinna is a well-trained boy (morally, and educationally) and a serious minded type with his study, he never jokes neither with his studies nor with the word of God. Whenever he returns from the school, his parents always give him sound teachings of the word of God, and also in being morally disciplined, in addition to those he had been taught at the school. Most especially, to always respect whom ever he came across, knowingly, or unknowingly, he should always respect them, charity begins at home but does not ends here, so any good will you will be doing for the outsiders you must practicing them now, so that you will be accustomed to it whenever you are outside, his mother advised, he thanked her by prostrating himself humbly before her, saying he will try to be a good boy, and put all she had taught him into noticeable practice.
One day, in the afternoon, after Obinna had returned from school, he was playing a rubber ball with his friends on the field nearer to their compound, after his siesta. As he was about passing the ball to a teammate, he saw an elderly woman that lived behind their compound, carrying a boatful of firewood on her head. Obinna hurriedly went to the woman to help her with the load oh her head to her house. As he returned to his friends playing on the field, they start throwing some ridiculed worded statement at him, such as; ?Mr. helper?, ?Mr. T.K?, so now that you had helped her what were you be able to get in return?, Nothing he said. You see!, they all chorused, and laughed him to scorn. He couldn?t tolerate this further, that he left their midst for their home, with a glooming face. When he got home that evening he explained all that had happened to his mother, and she advised him never to mind, such is life. Instead he should continue the good work, there is nothing that has no reward, one day, they that were laughing at you today, shall come rejoicing with you, in the later future to come when you shall reap your reward abundantly, he thanked his mum, and left for their kitchen which was made from palm fronds, to pick his dinner. After the dinner, he bid his mother good night, since he was not one of the children that love moon light play, instead he preferred spending his moon light period to do any other useful things, such as reading, praying, and sleeping, to any other things.
Obinna had a dream. At night, Obinna had a dream that, has he was walking through the forest, on his way from his school to their home, he saw an elderly man, clothed in an immaculate, glittering, white, linen clothe or garment, carrying a load containing glittering materials, but the exact nature of the load, he cannot tell. The old man was moaning, as he was walking, as if he is about giving up the ghost. He offered the man a helping hand in helping him to carry the load. As they were walking through the silent and solitary forest, the old man began to down pour a shower of prayer on him, as if it was raining Cat and Dog. Obinna couldn?t do any thing, other than to keep on saying amen, to the prayers. Sooner, the old man further his speech with a piece of advice, like;

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