General overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor Enoch Adeboye has said he wanted to be a soldier but was restrained by his mother.
Adeboye, on Sunday, cited 2 Timothy 2:3, where the Bible talks about “enduring hardness as a good soldier of Christ” and added, “I wanted to be a soldier, it’s my mother who didn’t allow me.”
The cleric acknowledged the presence of the military, paramilitary and other security forces in attendance for the monthly thanksgiving service.
He said his mum requested that he should allow her to die before he joins the army.
“… And I told her that I wanted to join the army after I graduated (from the university), she said to me, ‘You’re my only son. I’m not asking you not to join the army, just wait till I die and you have buried me, then you can do whatever you want,” he said.
Adeboye added that this was in the 1960s, and that by the time she died in the 1990s, “it was already too late for me to join the army. But I love the Army. Maybe another time I will tell you the reasons.”
He said he loved the army so much that he would always watch films and other documentaries that had to do with the military.
