Dr. Johnson. Org
From The Doctor’s
Diary- 31- You can’t trick the Lord
One day as I was finishing my work at the Clinic, my
assistant informed me that someone from the vigilance department of the police
wanted to see me urgently. I wondered what the cause was and asked my assistant
to usher him in. After saying “Hello”, I asked him what the reason for his
coming was. He was reluctant to say much and proceeded to show me a letter that
had been received by the vigilance department. I asked him what the letter was
about and again hesitantly he stated that someone had sent a written complaint
that I was ‘a quack’ and did not have the required qualifications for
practicing Medicine.
This made me smile and I told him amusedly that this was the
5th year that I was practicing after my post graduation in Medicine.
He said that he had been enquiring the matter and knew that there was foul play
involved but they couldn’t really pinpoint the culprit behind this. Anyway as
this was considered as a serious offence, the Superintendent of Police had sent
me a notice to appear before him on a set date with all my records. After he
left me, I wondered who could have played such a trick on me, because I did not
have any overt enemies in that place and never was any animosity shown towards
me by any one in that place.
That night I prayed to the Lord and asked for His guidance
regarding the matter, all the while wondering who could have played such a
trick. As I slept, I saw a dream. In the dream I am in an elevator with a man who
works in a coffee shop near the Clinic. As we ride the elevator, this man
smiles at me and says, “The police will never know that I wrote that letter.”
Waking up at night after the dream, I praised God for His faithfulness and
asked the Lord why that man did so? In
reply the Lord said that the man didn’t like the Gospel work that I did at the
Clinic-distributing tracts and books and it was a sort of harassment that he
had planned. I knew this man very well but did not go to confront him regarding
the thing leaving the matter into the Lord’s hands.
A few days later, early one morning, I traveled with my wife
to the SP’s office to show him my records. It so happened that the SP was sick
that day and as soon as I entered his office, he asked me to prescribe some
medicine for his illness. He just glanced through my records and told me that
he was sorry for the trouble, but he was just following regulations. I asked
him whether they were able to catch the culprit but he just shook his head and
said, “It’s not so easy.” I felt like telling him that it would be easy if he
could ask the Lord for some help, but just kept quiet knowing that he wouldn’t
probably understand or appreciate what I said. As I said “Good Bye”, he smiled
and wished me the best.
To end the story, I do not know for sure whether it was
God’s way of avenging for what the
fellow had done, but in a drunken brawl that week itself this man was stabbed
and was hospitalized for quite some time.
God is faithful in all His ways and He says, “I will never
leave you nor forsake you.”
And His Word exhorts us in this way, “Do not repay anyone
evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it
is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not
take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written:
"It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. (Romans
12:17-19)