One day as I was finishing my work at my Clinic in
Kerala, 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 manner,
Repay
no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. If it
is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. Don’t seek
revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance
belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” (Romans 12:17-19)
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