Before I was born again, I entered into a covenant of purity to preserve myself until marriage. That was in 2001, but after two years, I felt it was a mistake. My heart was not committed to it. I felt like I had caged myself.
I remember in my estate at the time, somewhere in Egbeda, I would call around all the guys asking if there was any party happening. They wanted to know why I was so freaked about going to a party. No party ever happened. Not one.
I was in the renowned boys secondary school, Kings College, Lagos and I had one more year left. Final year was one where nobody could stop you from going out. It was also a year when most boys lose it. That period, I felt that even though I couldn’t have sex, I would do every other thing.
I didn’t visit our sister college, Queens College until I was in my final year. They were having their cultural night and when I got there I felt like I had wasted six years and I thought to myself, “no wonder all these boys come here.’ There were tall, short, slim, fair, fine girls. There were just girls everywhere and all this while I had spent six years with just boys, but at that point it was too late! *laughs*.
When I decided to start living right and stop looking for opportunities to do bad things, the opportunities started to come.
In 2003, I gave my life to Christ in my room. That day I was home and was just thinking. I already had the basic knowledge of salvation and all. But this time I decided that I would live for God and let Him be the captain of my ship. I was reading my bible before then, I went to church before then, but after this it was different, it was new. Truth is I wasn’t a bad boy; I was just a dead boy.
God had always been shielding me even when I didn’t want Him to. I managed to stay true to my covenant of purity till I got married. So yes, I married my wife as a virgin.