The lyrics of one of the songs in Hunchback Of Notre Dame cartoon says “Just another ordinary miracle”. Yes, may just be another ordinary miracle but it meant so much to me. It showed how good and true God is. It may just be an ordinary miracle but when I experienced it, it was definitely not ordinary to me.
Jadon my 2 year-old son was down with high fever on 8th July 2009 at about 12.00pm. Given him one dose of Paracetamol syrup and the fever subsided. But four hours later it came back but it was another hour to go before his next dose of the fever mixture. So sponging him was the only way to keep the fever down. After his second dose of fever mixture, the fever subsided again. Like the first time, it came back four hours later but with vengeance. This time it shot up to 39 degree Celsius. But we couldn’t give him his medicine because it was not time yet. So we sponged him again. The fever was so high that he was so tired, sleepy and shivering. While changing his clothes standing up, he collapsed, much like lost the strength of his legs and they gave way because he was too weak. I carried him and sat him on my lap and he asked “Where is papa?” even though his papa was holding him. Boy, that really scared me. Maybe he was confused because of the high fever. We gave him his third dose of fever mixture at 10pm.
The fever subsided about an hour later. I checked on him every hour with some sleep in between. The fever subsided completely, but my fear was that it would come back again after four hours. At 2am, I dare not sleep because it has been four hours and the fever may come back again. I prayed for him hoping that the fever will come back only after five hours so that he could take his fever mixture to control the temperature. Fifteen minutes past the 4 hours, no fever yet. Good. 45 minutes to go. I continued to pray. I was lost for words to say. Beside praying for God to take away the fever and rebuking the fever in Jesus’ name, I did not know what else to pray. So I decided to sing songs in my heart. I sang a few songs in my heart and repeat many times. Songs like “In the name of Jesus, we have the victory”, “There is power, wonder working power in the blood of the Lamb” and “Thank you, thank you Jesus”. I sang the songs believing that we have victory over the fever in the name of Jesus and by the power of the blood of the Lamb he is healed and thanking Jesus for the healing. In between songs, I said some prayer and rebuking the fever in the name of Jesus.
Half an hour past. Still no fever. I knew God has answered my prayer and the fever will come back only after 5 hours. Well that was what I hoped for anyway. 45 minutes past. No fever yet. One hour past. Totally no fever. That’s strange. The fever before this was so high and it was hard to believe that it would be gone completely so soon. Yes we have given him one dose of antibiotic prescribed by the doctor, but one dose would normally won’t be that effective to clear the fever. He has taken the same antibiotic before this and it took a few doses to clear the fever.
One hour later still no fever. I knew that this was not an ordinary event that happened some of the time. I knew that it was God’s hand behind all these. It may just seem to be an ordinary miracle to some, but I knew God was at work performing this out of ordinary miracle. What I hoped for was that the fever would come back after 5 hours but I got more than what I asked for. God is willing to bless us with more than what we can imagine. Remember the boy with five loaves and two fish?
The fever came back only at about 7.30am in the morning. And this time it was not high. We gave him another dose of fever mixture and he was completely well after that. God knew our fear that night and he held back the fever till morning and granted him a speedy recovery. Definitely not just an ordinary miracle.
Posted by Lam Seng
