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Student @ Lagos State University
If I Was There That Day, Would I Have Stayed?
<p>I’ve been thinking about that day.</p><p>Not as a story we’ve heard so many times…</p><p>but as a moment that actually happened.</p><p>A real day.</p><p>With real people.</p><p>Real fear.</p><p>Real silence.</p><p>And I keep asking myself</p><p>If I was there… would I have stayed?</p><p>Because it’s easy to say now, from a distance,</p><p>that we would have stood firm.</p><p>That we would have followed Him.</p><p>Defended Him.</p><p>Believed without shaking.</p><p>But that day didn’t feel like victory.</p><p>It didn’t look like purpose.</p><p>It looked like loss.</p><p>The One they followed… arrested.</p><p>Beaten.</p><p>Mocked.</p><p>The same voice that spoke with authority</p><p>now standing in silence.</p><p>And suddenly, everything they thought they knew</p><p>started to feel uncertain.</p><p>So people scattered.</p><p>Not because they were evil</p><p>but because they were human.</p><p>Fear has a way of exposing what we really believe.</p><p>And in that moment,</p><p>staying didn’t look like strength.</p><p>It looked like risk.</p><p>It looked like being associated with something that seemed like it was failing.</p><p>And isn’t that still us today?</p><p>We say we believe.</p><p>We say we trust.</p><p>We say we stand.</p><p>But when things don’t go the way we expect</p><p>when prayers seem unanswered,</p><p>when life feels heavy,</p><p>when following God doesn’t look like winning</p><p>Do we still stay?</p><p>Or do we quietly distance ourselves?</p><p>That’s what makes Good Friday uncomfortable.</p><p>Because it forces us to confront a version of faith</p><p>that doesn’t look beautiful.</p><p>A version that is:</p><p>confusing</p><p>painful</p><p>uncertain</p><p>A version where staying requires more than words.</p><p>It requires trust.</p><p>The kind that doesn’t depend on outcomes.</p><p>The kind that holds on…</p><p>even when everything looks like it’s falling apart.</p><p>Because on that day, it looked like the end.</p><p>No celebration.</p><p>No clarity.</p><p>No visible hope.</p><p>Just a cross…</p><p>and a silence that must have felt endless.</p><p>But what they didn’t know was</p><p>That silence was not absence.</p><p>It was purpose unfolding.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe Good Friday is not just about what happened then.</p><p>Maybe it’s a question for us now</p><p>When faith feels uncomfortable…</p><p>when things don’t make sense…</p><p>when it looks like nothing is working</p><p>Will we still stay?</p>
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