Episode 9
my doctor p.o.v still continue:
I watched as her lips danced onâŠ
The short, curly strands of hair at the sides of her face looked beautiful as thin streams of sweat cascaded down her face.
âThese are incisionsâ she said, softly and I smiled
âAs if I knewâ I said in my heart
I held her back and patted her.
âItâs going to be alright my dear sister. It takes the revelation of the problem to proffer solutions to it. Since God has shown us what it is, then we already know the battle we are fightingâ I explained.
I had been a victim of incisions and I knew just how to face it.
Itâs nothing but through Godâs divine power.
Before I gave my life to Jesus, I had a disease called epilepsy and this had really caused me many valuables plus disgrace in the public place.
I remembered when I was still at the college when a guy who had been a very close friend proposed to me jokingly and while we smiled over it, he had pushed me with the tip of a finger and the disgrace came again!
I started gasping
I fell to the ground with a thud!
I started foaming
Because of this experience, Amos, my very good friend deserted me.
I lost my family, I lost Amos my b—m friend, I was really being stigmatized and I was almost giving up.
Then, one day, my mother called me suddenly, asked me to get into her âcabu-cabuâ car and off she drove me to one mud house in her village.
I thought it was a joke until I was given something greenish to drink and before I knew it, I was asleep.
By the time I woke up, it was so brutal, what had happened to me.
My long, dark hair was gone- my head was scraped clean!
My hands peppered from the cuts of incisions- 21 on my right hand, 21 on the left hand, 14 on my forehead, and 14 behind my neck.
I couldnât weep that day as I felt the frustration that my mum felt that could have made her do such to me.
She apologized as she wept that she just had to save me from the disease that ravaged me then.
And it worked!
âŠor it looked like it worked!
Until five months later when the problem returned with full force.
If the ailment lasted for 22 hours before the âtraditional operationâ was carried on me, it increased to about 50 hours.
That was when I realized that it is only when God gives gift to a man that he adds no sorrow to it.
The devil gives you a single thing then he takes about an hundred things from you in return!
I met Jesus when I attended a crusade and I gave my life to Jesus.
âMrs. Olowo, I can relate to what you are going through as well. Check my body well and you would see quite a number of incisions in there.â I started
Her eyes widened
âReally! Even doctors believe in traditional powers?â she asked so surprised
I smiled
âWell, I got the incisions before I gave my life to Jesus and I really did regret itâ I said, surveying her face for her reaction
âYou regret it? Isnât it supposed to be the reason why you are still hale and hearty? Isnât it why your work is going on well with no issue?â she spoke on naively, looking at me as if I was the weird one
âBut what about you? Are the incisions working for you? If they are, why are you finding it difficult to do certain things? Why?â I asked and her enthusiasm died a bit
âWellâŠâ she said and observed a very long pause
âThe truth is this my dear sister, the devil gives no man anything goodâ I said firmly and she shook her head
âOf course I know. But I am alive only because I am well secured and safe through the powers imputed in me. If not for the incisions and all, my case would have been a no no!â She explained, so sure of her conviction.
I shook my head
Oh what blindness!
âSo, what of Jesus? Where is the power he promised? Is he not able to save or deliver? Is that what you are saying? That Jesus is powerless?â I bombarded her with the seemingly millions of questions
She gripped my arm suddenly and sqÂŁÂŁzed it
âI didnât say thatâ she said
âSo, what were you saying? Explain in clear termsâ I so hated it when my Lord and Savior is being underrated by anyone because He had so done marvelous things for me.
âYou had incisions too. Why?â she asked, pouting her mouth in argument
I cleared my throat
I was ready to fight this to the end
Godâs name must be glorified
âIt was because of Epilepsyâ
She smiled
âAnd it did stop after the traditional intervention, didnât it?â she smiled as if she had won the case.
I was interested in the point she was driving at so, I nodded
âOh yes, it did stop!â I said and she smiled widely, clapping her hands together
âGod isnât as strict as we have painted him to be. In fact, the Bible says, heaven helps those who help themselvesâŠâ
Misquote of the scriptures, oh God!
âMy doctor, God seems slow sometimes. Where you expect him to act, he wouldnât act but when you do not expect him to act, thatâs when he would act. So, we have to consult the gods while still worshipping God because they are just like messengers to himâ she killed it all.
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