I
will tell you just the way it is, how astonishing and clearly the Lord God
reveals His desire for those who fear Him and love Him. When I was in
Leningrad for an operation, during the time of a memorial service, the Lord in
a miraculous and shocking way caused me to tremble with fright when He gave me
this command: “Shepherd my sheep, feed my lambs.” The years have since
gone by and I, under the spell of a cunning diabolical spell, forgot that
command of God and Satan again placed in my soul that great urge to return to
surgery. And this is why the Lord punished me by allowing the retina in
my eye to tear. My eye was operated on twice unsuccessfully by professor
Ontintsof because God’s punishment had to remain with me. St. Luke of Crimea.
The day after the second operation, when I was laying flat with my eyes bandaged, the strong urge to do surgery again overwhelmed me when the Lord sent me a shocking dream: I was in a Church without lights. The only lit up place was the altar. A little beyond the altar was a casket of a saint. They had placed on the altar a wooden board and on this was a naked human body. In the back and next to the altar I saw students and doctors smoking cigarettes and I was teaching them anatomy of the human body.
I
was then startled by a noise and when I turned my head, I saw that the covering
of the saint’s casket fell off. The saint sat up in the casket, he turned
and looked at me with a look of pain and shock. I finally realized the
great burden of my sin, of my disobedience to the command of the Lord Jesus
Christ to “shepherd my sheep and feed my lambs.” For the last fourteen
years I begged the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive me remembering clearly my
dramatic dream with the body and the dead person lying on the Holy Altar.
Lately I have been informed by God that my sin has been forgiven. Day after
day, I see the body less and less on the Holy Altar where it finally
disappeared completely.
And
now, my children let me offer to you my last will and testament. I
believe deeply in God and I have built my whole life upon His
commandments. And I bequeath to you that you offer your lives to God and
build all things upon the commandments of Christ.
For
a long time and with great determination I sailed through life against the
current of the world and to you my children I bequeath that you sail against
the current, as difficult at that may be. Turn your attention and your
heart away from the great majority of human beings who pursue not the higher
goals but those which are easy to acquire. Do not accede to the great
majority of people who live according to their own thinking and with the mind
of their leaders. They anchor their lives not with the commandments of
Christ but on the directives of people who have the power to lead them not to
the Kingdom of Heaven but to the riches of the earthly kingdom.
The
purpose of life is to seek after the highest truth and to never divert from
that road even when they force you to serve the purposes of the lowest form
of truth by trampling upon the truth of Christ.
You should be ready even to be martyred since you are sailing
against the current. Keep your faith firmly in your thoughts, in your
husbands and in your wives just the way I kept it.The Saint Bishop and surgeon.
In
your scientific endeavours and in your efforts to study the mysteries of
nature, you should not look for your own glory but only to lessen the pain of
your sick and helpless fellow human beings.
Remember
that I, your father, sacrificed all my life in doing these things.
Imitate me just the way I imitated the Apostle Paul and do not work for your
stomach but to help those who without your help cannot free themselves from the
tortures of poverty and lies.
If
you fulfil all these things that I bequeath to you, the blessing of God will
come upon you in harmony with the words of David the prophet. “But the
mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and
His righteousness to children’s children, to such as keep His covenant, And to
those who remember his commandments to do them.” (Psalm 103: 17-18.)
I have always prayed for that blessing and grace of God in my life
for you my children, my grandchildren and my great grandchildren and surely I
will always pray for your eternal life when I will stand before the throne of
my God and your God, my Creator and your Creator. That time is most
likely near because my heart and my strength have been weakened.
Your
father
Alousta,
July 22, 1956
Reference:
https://www.impantokratoros.gr/st-luke-spiritual-testament