DREAMS

48. GOD REMEMBERS
Sometime back I had to travel to a neighboring state in India for some personal reasons. Before
I traveled and in between small talk with my children, my elder daughter (aged 10 at that time)
made a request. She said, “Papa, when the train goes through a tunnel, remember me.” I
thought of it as a strange request, but said yes and forgot about the whole matter.
The day of journeying arrived and I was traveling and suddenly after a couple of hours of the
journey, the train passed through a tunnel. Right away my mind raced back to the moment that
my daughter had said, “Papa, when the train goes through a tunnel, remember me.” I had a
chuckle all by myself and thought about the many little requests that children make of their
parents.
I believe Our Father in heaven also remembers our small requests that we make of Him day in
and day out in our lives. Perhaps after a few years we may think of that request to have been
trivial. Perhaps people who hear of our requests may think it to be strange, but Jesus loves us
so much that He doesn’t consider any thing that we ask of Him to be trivial.
Sometimes we ourselves may forget some of the things we asked of God; but He doesn’t forget
us or our requests. He says,
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has
borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of
my hands; your walls are ever before me. (Isaiah 49:15, 16)
People have the habit of forgetting, but God never forgets. In the book of Genesis we read of
Joseph, Jacob’s son who explained the dreams of the cup bearer of the Pharaoh and then
requested him to say a kind word about him to Pharaoh and get him released from prison, but
the cup bearer forgot the whole matter. Yet God did not forget Joseph and delivered him from
prison and made him the 2nd in command in Egypt.
Remember this day, that Jesus will never forget you or the work that you do for Him. He will
reward you plentifully when the time comes. Know this that He never regards your requests to
Him as trivial. The Bible says,
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear
him.. (Psalm 103:13)
49. WHAT AN EXAM
I had hard time while I was doing my MD in General Medicine in Gulbarga (a town in Karnataka
state, India). We were eleven of us to appear for the exams. Even before the exams took place,
everyone concerned said that only four or five people would get through. The subject matter in
Medicine is too vast for anyone to study everything and go for the exams. The theory and
practical exams are really tough. The internal examiner who is supposed to be a comfort to any
student was himself a terror for us. We were all afraid of him. Being an outsider (from another
state) I had more disadvantages. There didn’t seem much hope for me to get through.