Why I didn’t die in the Auto Accident Yesterday? #MondayInspiration

Gabriel Olatunji Legend



It was just a little past 6am yesterday (Sunday) morning; I had been unusually patient with the two ladies (my sisters, not biological) going with me to church. They took their time to apply all the make-ups, probably clean it up and re-apply it again. On a normal day I would have hurried to their room and told them that if they were sure they were going with me to church they should be out or else I would leave them behind but yesterday was different – I was so unusually cool and they loved it.

Finally, they were done and we were in the car already, I was afraid the car wouldn’t start as the fuel gauge was giving signs it was low but there was no where I could get fuel that morning; the car came up and we were on our way. While driving, I contemplated which route to take as there are two roots from my estate that can lead me to church. I decided to take the route I didn’t take the last time and everything was fine UNTIL…

It was a curvy bend and I knew it was a bent but somehow I didn’t realize I was speeding too much and I had turned into the bend with a speed only needed on Lagos – Ibadan expressway and the unimaginable happened; it was an accident that left the two side wheels of the car I was driving in the middle of the culvert – two tires were on this side of the road and two tires were on that side of the road. I believe that the car could have turned upside down because we were at the verge of it and maybe I would not appreciate this ‘miracle’ so much if not that I had two young, beautiful ladies with a lot of dreams and hope sitting in the car with me and I was the only person who was on a seatbelt. By a miracle of some sort God spared our lives, we all came out of the car without a scratch. I had to part with a few thousands to sort this whole accident yesterday and will part with more to get the car back to optimal performance; but all of that is nothing compared to all the fears that ran through my mind after the whole episode – if either of those girls had died due to the fact that they weren’t on seatbelts, how would I have faced their parents, and family members? How would I ever be able to live with myself again? What if in the process another person from another car or someone just trying to cross the road had lost his or her life? I might not be in a position to write this #MondayInspiration today but God spared my life, the lives of those with me and on the road.

I still managed to attend church and all through the services (attended three services) my mind could not fathom the awesomeness of God. I remembered all my atrocities, all my sins and inadequacies; I remembered all the promises I made to Him that I didn’t keep. I particularly felt that the money I spent yesterday was because of a certain financial pledge I didn’t fulfill two weeks ago – it may be true, it may be false but whatever the case may be God has shown me in more than many ways that He loves me and He has constantly spared my life. In my thoughts, I remembered my life purpose and all the things I ought to have done and be doing - I am only doing a small fraction of it which is not even costing me sweat and it occurred to me that the best way to appreciate God is to LIVE FOR HIM and by this, I don’t mean do church or do mosque but do the things God has put in your heart to do. What God desires the most is that your life is a positive influence to the lives of others and that you wake up every day fulfilling purpose (Living for Him) and not just making money or getting security. I strongly believe I am still alive because God has decide to give me another chance at life and He is hoping that I make things right.

I am in my late twenties and I have too many unfulfilled dreams than fulfilled ones and this is because I have been particular about my financial security than my eternal life security – I said in the course of the week that the best way to live forever is to create a product or service that will be in use even when you are dead. I have written about three to four books between when I was eighteen years old and now, I have written one or two movie scripts, I have helped people publish books but never published my own, I have recorded inspirational speeches that nobody has heard, I have organized and halted the continuity of events and plans that God would like to see continue, I have hundreds of inspired plans from God that I have done absolutely nothing about and should I have died yesterday I would stand in God’s presence a failure because I had done nothing with the ‘5’ talent He gave me – I had dug them in the ground in a bid to find personal financial security. Money will finish and we will all die but we can decide how we die, what we die for and how to live forever even when we die but the ONLY way to do this is by waking up every day to do the things that God wants you to do, to live for him, to fulfill purpose, to make a meaning out of other lives and to influence other lives positively.

Don’t be surprised if you see OLATUNJISPEAKS.com first published book in three to four weeks time – I will not waste another day living for myself. I want to encourage you to go all out and do the things that you have feared; get out and record that song, start that training, write that book, launch that company, offer that service, pay that person’s school fees, make that software, attend that training, organize that seminar, publish that material, create that thing, make that film – NO MORE EXCUSES – they don’t entertain such (EXCUSES) in heaven where you are going.

Whether you are a Muslim or a Christian I would be more than grateful if you can thank God on my behalf and also make a choice today to live on even when you are no more by deliberately creating something that won’t die.



Gabriel Olatunji Legend is an entrepreneur, publisher and a solution strategist. I am open to further discussions on my twitter handle @OLATUNJISPEAKS | Do you also need to publish a book? I might be able to help you out; mail olatunjispeaks@gmail.com | 07066556843