HE IS A PRODUCT OF GOD'S GRACE

 I am doctor oludiya olusegun, a family physician and a medical  microbiologist. I was born in the 1860s, I attended federal government primary school in my town Ilesha and subsequently went to a nearby secondary school. I initially started my university programme at the University of Ibadan and subsequently went to University of Lagos for medical school, I graduated in 1995 and I started working. I meet the lord in December 1987 at a programme organised by Ibadan varsity christian union, I got married in 1995. I am married to a wonderful woman called oladunni oludiya, she is a neuro physiotherapist and God has blessed us with  wonderful children.

Life for me has been very interesting but it has been God filled. From when I was young I always had an experience of God and I had always known that I needed to know Him. Even though I was introduced to sin along the line which lead to some unpleasant events in my life, I always knew God was the only way to a victorious life. I came from a setting where there were so much experiences of spiritual battles, I grew up with the experiences of these things.My battles in life and how God has helped me made me know that am living by grace and everything I have or has achieved in life has been by grace. I am a product of grace.

 My parents are God fearing and good people and by the standard of their time, they believed they were Christians and they made effort to project that because in terms of discipline and morals, they were the best anyone could have. I grew up under that kind of environment but you know when one is living under that kind of situation where there is no supervision of the Holy spirit,  you will still have instances here and there where the devil will still try to break in to steal, to kill and destroy and for these reasons, there were experiences I had when I was young that I believe if my parents where then born again, things would have been better. But now they are born again.

I have two siblings both female and I happen to be the only male in between them. We had enough but there was a lot of wants because of some spiritual attacks I earlier mentioned. Our both parents were working and they had a lot but because of such spiritual attack, one of our parents was not forthcoming in terms of sustainance and that made it a lot really difficult but I will say that God has been really merciful, He provided all I needed miraculously.

I could have gotten born again earlier because I always heard God calling unto me but I got born again at the age of seventeen years. If I had gotten born again earlier, I would have had divine wisdom to ask God about my life and things would have been much better but I still give Him all the glory. Getting to know the lord made a lot of difference in my life, such as the way I handled things and God gave me an opportunity at that time to start to hear from Him so if I  had known God earlier, life would have been better. But talking about challenges my first was not being born again early and secondly as a child I had an horrible experience of being introduced to sin and as it is with sin, once a step is taking, another one will follow it and because of that I felt an early diversion of attention, of purpose and experience so to say. It was another challenge for me because instead of focusing on what I really needed to do, there was a diversion. Another challenge I have experienced was in terms of financial sustainance.

Before I gave my life to christ,  I had a lot of difficulties facing people to talk. Despite my level of  brilliance, I will never volunteer to answer questions in class but when I gave my life to God, I gained my confidence and my whole life became what it should be.

Career wise, God has been faithful, I never knew what it meant to fail any exam until after I had written JAMB, I didn't meet up with the cut off mark for medicine and my parents were not willing to follow it up main while JAMB did not deem it fit to offer me any other course.  Because I was born again at medical school and because God told me He will teach me medicine himself I was able to stay focused but since I started working I have had challenges of employers not been so appreciative such that they could owe me salary for months but God has been wonderful and he has not allowed me to beg. God has been arranging situations where I though have to work as a fire brigade thing but it has paid off.

Right now I look back and I can say God has been faithful to me in all respects and if not for anything knowing Him has been great, for example, if I had not being born again, I would have made mistake in choosing a life partner because when I got born again, God changed my view of marriage completely and both in making a choice and living together as couples, knowing God has made a lot of difference. Knowing God has given a great view of parenting and my children a kind of life style I would have loved to live if I could go back to being at their age. I do not mean to praise myself but just create GA framework I which God has made a difference in my life.

Looking at it all, I have enjoyed unmerited favour of God all my life, even when there was a digression because of early introduction to sin, God did not cast me out. I return all the glory to Him.

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