Dr. Johnson. Org
The dreams that I dream-13-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)