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Student @ Lagos State University
I Was Meant to Keep Him In
<p>They put me there on purpose.</p><p>Not gently.</p><p>Not casually.</p><p>Deliberately.</p><p>Rolled into place with one assignment</p><p>to make sure nothing came out.</p><p>I wasn’t decoration.</p><p>I wasn’t symbolic.</p><p>I was security.</p><p>Finality.</p><p>The full stop at the end of a story they believed was over.</p><p>I had done this before.</p><p>Closed things in.</p><p>Sealed endings.</p><p>Kept the dead where they belonged.</p><p>That’s what I was for.</p><p>And this time…</p><p>it didn’t feel any different.</p><p>There was no movement.</p><p>No sound.</p><p>Just silence behind me.</p><p>Heavy.</p><p>Certain.</p><p>Convincing.</p><p>If you had asked me then,</p><p>I would have told you</p><p>“It’s finished.”</p><p>Because that’s what it looked like.</p><p>That’s what it felt like.</p><p>That’s what I was placed there to confirm.</p><p>But then…</p><p>Something happened.</p><p>Not from the outside.</p><p>Not from people trying to get in.</p><p>From within.</p><p>And I knew</p><p>before I moved, before I shifted</p><p>that my purpose had already been broken.</p><p>Because whatever was inside…</p><p>…was no longer staying inside.</p><p>I wasn’t rolled away</p><p>so He could come out.</p><p>I was rolled away</p><p>so the world could see</p><p>that He already had.</p><p>Understand this:</p><p>I was never strong enough to hold Him.</p><p>I was only strong enough</p><p>to convince people</p><p>that He was held.</p><p>And maybe that’s what makes this morning different.</p><p>Because resurrection doesn’t ask for permission.</p><p>It doesn’t wait for systems to agree.</p><p>It doesn’t depend on what was put in place to stop it.</p><p>It happens anyway.</p><p>Powerfully.</p><p>Quietly.</p><p>Completely.</p><p>And suddenly,</p><p>what was meant to contain Him</p><p>became evidence</p><p>that nothing ever could.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some things in life look sealed.</p><p>Closed.</p><p>Final.</p><p>But Easter reminds us</p><p>Not everything that looks finished…</p><p>is.</p><p>And not everything placed to hold you back</p><p>actually has the power to keep you there.</p>
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