If you had met him, you would have loved him

There was something about being in his presence that just made you a believer, a believer of all things good. He was like an angel sent on earth to make my life beautiful and to show me the kind of man that I should desire to have as my future husband and the role model he should be to my children and children’s children.

There was something about him that exuded love. There was no way you could be in his presence and felt insecure, inferior and unloved. Despite his social ranking and education, he made it very easy for everyone to come and converse with him, he was so easy to love.

Pastors loved him because he was God fearing, he knew and loved God with all of his strength and might. He would forgo the pleasures of this world so he could seed into the house of God. He wanted to see the lost get saved, the sick healed and the downcast in society finding a home in the church. Despite many questioning his motives, he did not once raise a tongue to answer any of his critics but in all prayer laid it all down to the Lord and the Lord surely silenced his enemies and elevated him even more.

His friends loved him because he was that one man you could depend on for anything. He was a man of his word and he valued friendship. Most of his friends made more time to come and spend it with him because he was just that one friend who seemed to possess a fountain of wisdom that you just wanted to quench your weary mind, impartation by association I guess.

They loved him because he was loyal and they knew he was that man that should anything happen to them he had their back, he loved their families as if they were his own. He was always ready to help, ready to give, ready to love…..

His wife and children loved him. Not only because they did not have a choice but because he was the perfect example. Perfect example of a loving husband, generous yet fair father and a good disciplinarian. He did not tolerate everything and he stood for something.

He stood for
all things good,
praise worthy
and true…….

He stood for family values, his family came first. They loved him because there was never a day that they felt like he loved the church more or his friends or his work. They did not understand how he had such a big title yet still made time to come home to his family and have dinner every night with them. His little girls loved him because he spoilt them with so much love such that even up till now they know not to accept any man just because he can charm the birds out of trees, they know the true hidden factors to look out for and how to search them out as he taught them. His young boys loved him because they were learning what it meant when the Apostle says “love your wives as Christ loved the church”. His wife loved him because she saw in him a man who would lay down his life for her and would cherish and love her forever and a day, she loved him because he was her priest, he ushered her into the Presence of the Lord.

……..They loved him because he stood strong to the faith, he held on, nomatter how sick he got and with all the challenges he faced he still loved God. They loved him because they saw a friend of God in him with a stubborn faith that was rewarded with favour and in some weird way they all just wanted to be like him. They loved him not because he was perfect cause Heaven knows he wasn’t but because
he was a good man,
the best man…..

Most of all they loved him because he was their father and he was her husband.

I am sorry you didn’t get a chance to meet him but I know that if you had met him, you would have loved him.