THE KING AND HIS KINGDOM. PART 1

This is the story of the Greatest King that ever lived. A story of Love, Mercy, Pain, Hope, Betrayal, Justice, Judgement and a Kingdom. A story of the heavens, earth and creation.

There is a King who lived long ago, still lives and will always live. His Name is Emini. King Emini is all a King should be. He had the power to create and recreate, is all knowing, all wise and all powerful. He can do anything but only ruled in love and mercy because His very nature was love. The only thing that will incur his wrath was anything contrary to the way of love, it was called sin. Sin was a show of selfishness and disobedience to the instructions of the King.

Emini ruled over all there was in His Kingdom. He ruled with order and with laws that He himself would not break because to break these laws of love was contrary to His own nature. The Sum of all the laws of His Kingdom was Love. Love was all there was to it, He would not break this principle, in fact, He could not because Love was all He could be. The Kingdom was called Ile -Ife and He ruled in mercy, love and Peace.

All His Subjects called Him the King Who Loves us. Everything was under Him but He ruled in love despite all His power and sovereignty, that was the only way He Knew how to rule.

King Emini had a Friend called Levis. Levis was the best of the best, He was the epitome of Beauty, Strength and Splendour. Levis would walk the streets and He will be regarded just as much as Emini. The King gave Him all the beauty there was to give and He loved Him so much like a brother. Levis was very close to home like family.

Levis had many others like Him, they were great in strength and power but not as beautiful as Levis was. They had different powers and were subjects in Emini’s Kingdom.

One day, Levis began to see Himself in the place of Emini. He began to see himself being above Emini and called the King of Kings. This was the first time a person in Emini’s Kingdom will walk contrary to the principle of Love for to want to take another’s place is not to walk in love, to be proud was against love, Pride was the first Sin of Creation, it happened in the heavens, before the throne of God, in the Throne Room where there was Mercy and Grace. Levis had friends in support of His plot, others like Him. The King will have none of this, it was just a thought in the heart of Levis but will not go unpunished.

Emini being all powerful and all Knowing, knew about this plot by Levis, His closest friend and subject. There was only one way to deal with this. But it will take thousands of years because Emini was quick to love but very slow to Judge. Many did say that to Emini, a day was like a thousand years and a thousand years could be like a day mainly because of His nature of love. Whenever He loved for a thousand years to Him it was like a day and when He had to judge for a day it was like he had been doing it for a thousand years.

Love had to be all that was in Ile – Ife, anything contrary to love will lead to chaos, the Kingdom was at peace because of love. Levis’s actions changed this, Ile-Ife will never be the same, Emini cast Levis and His friends out of Ile – Ife until the day when all sin and evil will be brought to justice. Levis would not repent of breaking the law of love, in him was pride and arrogance like never before, He will do anything to walk above the King. That was the only way he would have it.

Emini knew all this but as his nature was He was slow to judge and Levis with his accomplices will be dealt with when their cup was full.

Somewhere in Ile – Ife were the Nams, the nams were a creation created in the very image of Emini. They had all the attributes of Emini but lacked his physical power, strength, prowess and beauty. They were the meekest in Emini’s Kingdom. The power of the Nams was sitted in their mind and spirit. They were able to accomplish anything they gave their mind to even if it took them a thousand years.

Emini loved them so much and the Nams loved Emini. Their satisfaction was in the fact that Emini was their friend and King. They loved the King and would do whatever He bade them to do because they knew He instructed them from a heart of love. The myth in the Land was that Emini had a secret tube that connected Him to all the Nams and each nam could communicate with Him anytime they wanted.

To show His love for the Nams, Emini created a realm called Areth. Areth was a realm of Ile – Ife. Areth was theirs to have and to use. Areth was a land of milk and Honey, filled with so many treasures. When Emini gave Areth to the Nams. He said to them ‘Be Fruitful, multiply on Areth, Have Dominion over it, take care of it, be creative, enjoy it, it is my gift to you because I love you’

Levis Envied the Nams for this because He thought to himself “how long did we Serve Emini and for once He never gave us a realm but to these nams who are not as great as we are, He gives them Areth?” His hatred for the Nams grew and He would have none of it.

Areth was the Envy of all Realms. No Realm compared to it.

A day came when the love of the Nams for Emini will be tested.

Levis had grown into everything Emini was not. His pride and arrogance had given birth to all manner of evil. He would not repent and spent all his days working towards overthrowing Emini.

Levis would deceive the Nams. He envied their relationship with Emini and He believed that the way to overthrow Emini was to get everyone of His subjects to betray Him. He believed that once Emini had no followers, He will be able to destroy Him and become the King. He also knew that the Nams will not do anything against Emini. Their very existence depended on Emini, without Emini they were nothing. Levis decided the best way to get this done was to deceive the Nams.

He succeeded. He tempted them with one of the treasures of Ile-Ife; Knowledge.

The Kingdom had many treasures Knowledge, Wisdom, Wealth, Riches, Honour, Prestige, Fame and many more pleasures to see, to enjoy and be proud about. However, the law of the land was that you could only get these things by love. By loving another nam or by caring for Emini’s creation will you get these treasures. Love was the currency of the Kingdom and there was nothing given or taken except by Love. To love was to Obey Emini’s laws trusting His Wisdom in every way.

The Nams were deceived and made to walk contrary to the law of love by disobeying an order of the King and that meant that they too will be exiled from the Kingdom just like Levis. However, because Areth was a gift to the Nams, Emini would not take Areth from the Nams. Instead He created a separation between Ile-Ife and Areth that could only be crossed by a very very narrow bridge, History has it that it is the narrowest bridge in all the Kingdom. The bridge was so narrow that it could only take a man at a time and even the man had to be so light, any weight carried by any man will make him fall off the bridge.

Emini was sorry. The King saw the deception of Levis and was desperate to restore His relationship with the Nams but Love was the law, and the moment that law was broken judgement will come but as always Emini was slow to Judge.

WHY WAS EMINI SLOW TO JUDGE?

Emini was slow to judge in the eyes of many. He had all power and authority and could do whatever He wanted but the only way He knows how to act was in love. Emini Knew the End from the beginning and He knew that some of the Nams will repent of their sin and turn to Him, for the sake of these Few who will turn back to Him, He was slow to judge. He will not judge any of his creation until he had given them time to repent of the evil they had done.

He loved his creation so much like a father will love his wayward son or daughter and will wait for as long as it will take for that wayward son to come back to Him once more. The Truth is that ‘His love was even much more than that’.

Besides, He had decided and appointed a day when He will judge all evil.

The fact that He loved did not mean that He will condone evil/sin, He will not condone sin, He showed this to the Nams 1656 years after He gave Areth to them.

Continued in Part 2