The Lord Never Errs

The Lord Never Errs
 P K Routry

A story I remember

from the lip of my grandmother

though illiterate she was, to read and write

but from memories, many scriptures she could cite

To inculcate faith in the Lord within me

and everywhere his presence how should I see?

She used to tell the stories of kings and kingdoms.

Recollecting the same I now feel in it inbuilt are many wisdoms

One such story centers round a king and his minister

King though good at times loses senses out of anger.

“Whatever the Lord does is good for His creature

Hence be happy in your woes as the Lord does never err.”

This was minister’s usual sermon

in the wells and woes of the king and common.

Once the king was in anguish with a cut on his finger.

Adding fuel to fire the same quote the minister did utter.

Ordered the king at the instance to imprison the minister.

The order was carried out immediately by the king’s commander.

Meanwhile one day the king went to a forest on a hunting spree

Leaving behind the accompanists on his horse he rode lone and free.

To hunt a speeding deer he went after it

and lost the way in the jungle and went adrift.

He was then caught by some demons performing a ritual

and were searching for a healthy man for a live burial.

They imprisoned the king and took him for sacrifice

But seeing the wound they rejected the king from the throat cut vise.

The king got a big relief and realized his blunder.

Repented for his act as prophetic proved the minister.

He came back and released the minister from the prison

profusely thanked him for his words of divine wisdom.

But asked the minister as to how his woes of imprisonment were good.

to this minister replied, instead of prison he would have accompanied the king to wood

where being a healthy person he would have been sacrificed in king’s place

the Lord did not err He saved him by this process.