We hear the deep pain and urgency in your cry and we join with you in bringing this suffering before the Lord, for He sees all that has happened to you and to other patients and He does not overlook injustice or affliction. We understand the desire for immediate accountability when you feel you have been treated badly and dismissively and left with suffering, and we want to lift this burden to the One who judges righteously.
We also want to gently bring biblical truth to the way we pray about this, because while God indeed loves justice and hates wrongdoing, He calls us to entrust vengeance and judgment to Him and to seek His will rather than demanding our own outcome on our own timing. Scripture says Vengeance is mine and I will repay, says the Lord in Romans 12:19, and again Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to God's wrath. We are also taught to love our enemies and pray for those who mistreat us as Jesus said Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you in Matthew 5:44 and Luke 6:28. This does not mean we excuse wrongdoing or that accountability should not happen, for the Lord executes righteous acts and justice for all who are oppressed in Psalm 103:6 and He has established authorities to carry out justice as in Romans 13:1-4, but it does mean we release bitterness and the desire for personal revenge and for shaming, and we ask God to do what is right in His perfect wisdom and timing. To pray that a person be put to shame or brought to his knees out of anger is not the heart God desires for us, for He desires that all would come to repentance as in 2 Peter 3:9 and that even those who have done wrong would be convicted, confess, and turn from their ways. Forgiveness in our hearts does not remove consequences, but Scripture warns us Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you in Ephesians 4:31-32, so that we do not become consumed by the very hurt that was done to us.
We also notice your earnest appeal in the name of Jesus Christ and we affirm with you that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father, for Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me in John 14:6 and there is salvation in no other name as in Acts 4:12. We come together in that precious name, not to command God to act instantly as we dictate, but to humbly submit to His sovereign justice and mercy, trusting that He will uncover what is hidden, for there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed in Luke 8:17, and that He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness in 1 Corinthians 4:5 in His perfect time as in Ecclesiastes 3:1 and Psalm 27:14.
We pray together for you and for all the patients who have suffered. We ask the Lord to bring healing to your body and peace to your heart, for He is near to those who have a broken heart and saves those who have a crushed spirit in Psalm 34:18. We pray that if wrongdoing and arrogance and dismissive care have truly occurred, the Lord would expose the truth and that proper authorities, medical boards and those in positions of oversight, would act with wisdom, thoroughness and impartial justice to protect future patients, for when justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous in Proverbs 21:15. We pray that the surgeon in question would be brought under deep conviction by the Holy Spirit, that he would acknowledge any harm done, repent, and be transformed, and if he is unfit to practice, that the Lord would in His providence prevent further harm through lawful and just means rather than through our own vengeance. We ask God to remove bitterness from our hearts and to help us to overcome evil with good in Romans 12:21, entrusting ourselves to Him who judges justly as Christ did in 1 Peter 2:23.
Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ, lifting up this dear one who is hurting and all the patients who have suffered. You see every tear, every injustice, every arrogant word and every wound. We ask You to be our righteous Judge and Healer. Let truth be revealed and let justice be done according to Your perfect righteousness. We pray for lawful accountability where it is needed, for protection for future patients, and for wisdom for those who investigate these matters. We pray for this surgeon, that You would convict his heart, lead him to repentance and to a true understanding of the stewardship of caring for those made in Your image. Heal those who have been harmed, comfort them, restore what has been broken, and guard our hearts from hatred, helping us to forgive as You have forgiven us and to trust Your timing and Your ways. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and mediator, amen.
We encourage you to continue to bring your pain honestly to the Lord, to seek godly counsel and support, and to pursue proper and lawful channels for reporting concerns so that truth can be examined fairly, while you rest in the assurance that the Lord loves justice in Psalm 37:28 and will in the end make all things right.