Someone has just had a very close brush with death. His name is QueeDee, a BYT man – we know him well. He is 36 years old and he has gone crazy. But why?
Sabbath morning, July 23, BletJhaw went through the village of BYT and felt something was not right. People were on the pathway going this way and that. Tragedy was in the air. There was an ominous sense that something had gone terribly wrong. What was it? What happened?
That evening we found out that QueeDee had taken an overdose of the dreadful “Horse medicine!” The people in all the villages have this drug. When taken in small doses it gives them super human strength and enduring energy. They can work all day and all night and not get weary. When too much is taken, or combined with drinking and opium, this drug becomes fatal or ‘fries the brain,’ giving life-time disabilities. We know people who have become terminally crazy.
QueeDee had mixed alcohol, opium and horse medicine on that fateful Friday night. He had experienced a sudden explosive reaction and taken off racing through the jungle, naked, and in a mad, frenzied attempt to commit suicide. Some men in the village tried to grab him and stop him, but he was much too strong for their combined efforts. He ran so fast nobody could possibly stop him. He hung himself on 2 different trees in the jungle that night, but miraculously and providentially the trees were both young and bent under his weight – he did not die!
QueeDee is still alive. He came back home that Sabbath morning. Late Monday night he came to our house asking for sleeping medicine. He had not slept a wink since this episode. He was nervous, jerky and only half dressed. He looked horrible I studied his face, it was haggard the lines deepened, his skin dry, and eyes glassy. I asked questions but could not tell how this had effected his mind. I do not have sleeping medicine, but I have direct access to the God of Heaven who is alone able to dispel the demons of darkness and free a person from the iron grip of the enemy of souls, giving peace and joy in return. My mind went to the lovely story of the 2 demoniacs in the land of the Gadarenes in Mark chapter 5. Those 2 men had over 6000 demons in them, but with a word from Jesus they all went instantly into the pigs.
God has saved QueeDee’s life so that he can have another chance to find Jesus.
Oh that all my people of the mountains would be set free by Jesus, their bad habits disappearing with the pigs! Oh that they may be found, sitting and clothed and in their right minds at Jesus feet, rejoicing in a brand new life that only He can give. Oh that they would then go back to their villages and tell how great things God hath done for them!!!
This is my prayer today!
Won’t you please pray for QueeDee?