SONGS THAT GAVE MY SOUL WINGS
By Akin Ojumu Like many others before and after me, accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior wasn’t an easy decision to make. Totally surrendering to God and wholly giving my life to Him was to me a fierce battle. My response to the altar call was drawn out and my path to the altar of salvation was long and tortuous marked with struggles against powerful fleshy desires that held me caged in a darkened and lonely prison. Now, to be honest, I didn’t consider myself a bad person at all. On the contrary, I was a highly disciplined teenager and young adult with very firm moral principles. Even as an unbeliever, I had an uncharacteristically unyielding self control. The typical vices that plagued and ensnared youths my age were a no-no for me. I refused to be peer pressured into taking up beer drinking and cigarette smoking was a habit that never quite caught my fancy. My friends thought you needed to do those things to be cool. To me, they were nothing more than e...