BURNING IN THE COLD

Fredrick rushed out from the palace of destiny after being given an incomplete set of maps(manual), he only got five beautiful maps that fell in line with his pattern of destiny and he didn't wait to collect the remaining two to make it seven.

He said to himself, I have tried, I have sweated and I can't wait anymore, this time I will apply the five maps and maybe I will come back for the remaining two, I have waited long enough to have access to the five maps.

Fredrick was tall and handsome and I guess his destiny was as tall as he was.

He determined in his heart to begin the journey after he woke up to reality, it was all a dream.

He was glad to have received those five beautiful maps through his revelation, of course, it would help him in making some right choices in the pursuit of his dreams as prescribed by the maps of destiny.

Imagine you only have access to those five maps that will help you to have access to your nose, the head and some part of your skin but you were unable to see the full-body, just some parts, the reality is, you would not be able to fully describe the full stature of such a being.

The journey started, with the help of five maps, the maps were not just maps, they were journey maps that would help anyone who has access to it in the fulfillment of destiny.

Those maps made it clear to Fredrick that he would become an officer, maybe if he had waited little more, he would have known the exact type of officer the maps were trying to explain.

This called for instincts, he decided to go for the position of a customs officer, after some years he eventually became a customs officer.

The journey of customs officer started, after some years, successes were recorded, it was like a dream come true for Fredrick Nelson, mansions were built, the title was made and exotic cars were acquired and a lot of funds swimming in the accounts of Mr. Fredrick Nelson.

Mr. Fredrick became a prayer point for everyone, in fact, his life became a prayer point for all churches during that era.

After 57 years of age, a retirement program was conducted for Mr. Fredrick Nelson and he later came home to celebrate with her beautiful wife and children.  

A week after, Mr. Fredrick was called to report to the office with immediate effect.

He drove out one of is mouth opening exotic cars and headed straight to office as commanded, on getting to the office, Mr. Fred met all the retired and the current officers on the table, he walked in silently and greeted them officially.

He was asked to take a seat, which he did and a mail was shown to him by one of his retired officers reading that three consecutive fraudulent transactions were carried out worth 200 million naira and all were appended by Mr. Fredrick Nelson. The documents were printed out and delivered to Mr. Fredrick Nelson.

These were clear and didn't look like forged documents, a man who retired a week ago became so free-speech and was shaking trying to spot out a difference in the signature in the documents presented by the officer in charge.

To cut the story short, Mr. Fredrick Nelson was arrested, detained and later ended up in prison. He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with hard labor and to worsen the case, all his properties were seized, sold and amounted to pay off the fraudulent amount of money to balance the account of the custom.

He was there in the prison thinking where did he get it all wrong, he was sad like a man who just lost his only son and he slept off.

Here came another dream, where he was taken back to the palace of destiny, of course, he was destined to become a customs officer, his instincts chose the right thing for him.

Where did he get it wrong? It was from the two maps he didn't wait to collect, the other two maps that would have completed his journey successfully revealed the reasons why he was chosen as an officer.

One of the maps revealed that he was sent there, not to gather wealth for himself, he was sent there to help those that are in need, he was sent there to break some heartless and wicked practices commonly practiced by those custom officers.

Instead of helping lives, he was terrible in his position, he was busy charging those that were not supposed to be charged, seizing their goods and he was even involved in illegal activities, of course, that made him achieve more than his other colleagues that he met on the job.

He was recruited to correct some ugly practices and instead of doing that he didn't.

The last map was the summary of the whole seven maps.

After this revelation, he woke up into reality and was crying profusely with so many regrets.

For every glory there is a purpose, the wealth is not just for you, it is for others.

Another lesson to learn is to wait for the whole revelation and be patient in achieving that.

A half revelation is better than not having one because it would be more dangerous and bring confusion to men.

 Where it is needed to die tarrying, one should and should not ruse out with a half vision.

Patience and understanding are needed in the fulfillment of one's dreams.

I pray our lives would not end like Mr. Fredrick Nelson.