Seeing Eye

Proverbs 20:12 (NKJV)

12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye,

The Lord has made them both.

One prayer we should pray always is for God to give us seeing eyes, hearing ears and an understanding heart.

Some weeks ago, I got a call from my mum that her domestic help who was to return from the Easter break the previous day, was nowhere to be found. Her father had helped her board a cab, the journey to my parents' house was about 2 hours and she had plied that route severally without any hitches.

I was concerned and began to pray, my parents went to make inquiries at the hospital and the motor park if there had been an accident along the road, but there was none. They eventually contacted the police who said they had to wait for about 48 hours and get back to them, they’ve had several of such cases and the people eventually show up. Well with the stories of kidnapping that abound, I was quite anxious about her whereabouts and hoped that she was safe wherever she was.

However, I remembered a dream I had early that morning before I received the call from my mum. In that dream I was looking for a baby who had been entrusted into my care, I left the baby in the car and quickly dashed into a salon to pick up something when I returned to the car, I couldn’t find the baby and I started asking the people seated around if they had seen the baby. A middle-aged woman brought out the baby and told me she had laid him on a rocking chair. Then I woke up.

Unknown to me, the Holy Spirit had gone ahead of me to reveal the events that would take place shortly and that the domestic help would be found but I didn’t relate the dream to the events that panned out later until I discussed the dream with my husband and he said to me: isn’t it obvious that God has showed you what would happen.

I was now at peace and believed that she would be found. At about 6:13pm, in the evening I received messages from my siblings but wasn’t able to read them, when I contacted my parents I was told she had returned home, she went to visit a friend somewhere and did not bother to inform anyone – story for another day.

Lessons learnt

God loves us, he speaks to us and shows us things to come.