By Xiaoying
An Introduction of Myself
My name is Xiaoying. In March 2016, when I went home to visit my children, my mother-in-law witnessed to me God’s work of the last days, telling me that God is the one true God who created the heavens and earth and all things, and that He is also the Savior revealed that ordinary people often say. Besides, she also told me that God has expressed all the truths required for mankind’s salvation, and asked me to read God’s words carefully, for only if man did according to the words of God, pursued the truth and learned to obey and worship God in all matters, could he be protected by God in the disasters. Hearing this, I realized that God had come to save man and this was a very rare opportunity. So, I happily accepted God’s work of the last days. However, since the CCP defamed, slandered, and spread rumors about the Church of Almighty God, my husband vigorously opposed my mother-in-law and me believing in God. I had no choice but to believe in God secretly without his knowledge.
Getting into an Unexpected Traffic Accident
As I spent most of my time working outside, I seldom went home and my two children had been living with my mother-in-law. Later, I took my children to my side this summer vacation and took care of them. In a flash, the summer holiday was coming to an end, my husband and I decided to send our children home in advance. On August 20, 2016, at around 9 a.m., my family of four got on the bus and were soon on our way home. When the bus came to an exit of the expressway, a car unexpectedly made a sharp turn onto the expressway. But our bus was traveling at such a high speed that the driver couldn’t brake fast enough to stop it, so he hurriedly turned the bus round. Yet at last the bus still crashed into the car and then hit a rail on the expressway. As a result, the car was wrecked, and one person in the car was killed instantly; meanwhile, the bus destroyed the rail, and the wheel was knocked off and went far away. At that time, I felt that the bus lost balance, and its body was shaking violently as if it was going to overturn. My heart sank, thinking: My family are gonna get into an accident…. It was at this very moment that I recalled my mother-in-law had ever told me to cry out to God in the face of danger. Thus I immediately called out to God: “O God! Please help me and save my family!” As soon as I said that, and before I realized it, the bus suddenly leaned to one side against a slope by the roadside resulting from inertia. Then all the passengers were packed together and they could hardly get up. Meanwhile, all the baggage fell down from the luggage rack above, some fell on people and some fell onto the floor. A passenger sitting in the backseat was thrown out of the smashed bus window. Another one, who fell asleep after getting on the bus was thrown to the floor, and when the police and ambulances arrived and tried to pull him up, only to find him dead. At that time, someone hit his head and got a hole in the head, from which fountains of blood streamed. It hurt him so bad that he had to cover it with his hand, immediately the blood ran down along his fingers. Then, gradually, he collapsed, with hand over the wound. Someone’s face hit the broken glass, the flesh was scraped off and the bone was exposed. It was totally a bloody mess. Someone broke his collarbone, while someone had a broken leg and was bleeding heavily. Some could move at that time, but then fainted from loss of blood. The compartment was full of incessant screams, gruesome, some were shrieking with fear, and some were crying or letting out a shrilling yell. So terrible! The driver was about to dial 110 and 120 with his mobile phone, but the tragic sight of this made him so scared that his hands kept trembling. It took him a long moment before he got through. Then, in a shattered tone, the driver told us to lose no time saving ourselves. However, all of us were frightened of our wits by this unexpected disaster. It was so terrifying, and we were all shaking, unable to stand up.
Believing in God is So Good
At that time, my husband and I were lying over the top of the crowd. Trembling with fright, he climbed up. He blanched at all this, and I could see the terror on his face. Then he spoke to me painfully: “Hurry up! Hurry up! Get up to look for our children. Are they lost?” Yet I was so scared that my legs felt weak, I couldn’t stand up anyhow, and I thought to myself: What if something untoward happened to my children? And if so, how can we get through the rest of our life? At this moment, my husband pulled me up forcefully. Then, he took pains to find our son and pulled him from the crowd of people. Finding he was OK, we went on to search for our daughter. Eventually we saw her at the bottom of the pile of people. When we dragged her away from the crowd, only to find that she stayed still like a fool, looked pale and was bloodied. Seeing people around us were either dead or injured, we thought our daughter must have been seriously injured. We were horrified. But then after checking her out, we discovered that she just had scratches. At that moment my heart was finally released. The four of us stayed safe and sound. I knew very well that it was God that saved our family. I had nothing else to say but to keep thanking God in my heart. It took a while before the ambulance arrived. The traffic police shattered the windows and dragged all the passengers out of the bus. At last, the victims, the seriously injured and those who suffered minor injuries, were all loaded into ambulances, and the four of us were no exception. In the hospital, a doctor cleaned the wounds of my daughter, and said to us: “Your family are the luckiest! And your daughter suffered only minor injuries.” I was very grateful and told him, “Both my mother-in-law and I are believers in God. It is God that has saved my family.” The others in the room also considered us the most fortunate people, and a grandmother in the ward next door came to us and said: “You are so lucky!” Then I immediately bore witness to God, “The God my mother-in-law and I believe in is the one true God who created the heavens and earth and all things. Thanks to God’s care and protection for us, we can escape this disaster. All the glory be to God!” I replied. At this moment, the doctor, nurses and all the others around us started talking about it. Afterward, the doctor and nurses gave me a thumbs up excitedly, saying: “Believing in God is so good!”
Thanks to the Protection of God
There were 46 people on board the bus altogether. In this crash, 3 people on the bus and 1 in the car were killed instantly; and another 9 died later at a hospital despite emergency treatment. Thereby, the accident killed 13 people in total, who were already sent to the funeral home at that time, leaving several people unconscious, and they were hospitalized and still being treated, while many others as well as my husband’s friend were seriously injured. After a while, my father-in-law and mother-in-law came to the hospital in a hurry. Seeing the four of us safe and sound, my mother-in-law said to my husband: “Today the God we believe in is the one true God. It is God that has protected your family. And you should never resist Him or prevent us from believing in Him anymore. Let it be a warning God gives to you.” Hearing this, my husband felt ashamed, he said: “We could survive this accident safely. I really thank God. Thanks be to God!” Then I added: “God is exactly the true God! He is really by our side. In this accident, as soon as I prayed to God, He showed me his miraculous protection for us. He is truly almighty! We must believe in God properly.” Later on, we learned of the exam results of our kids, which showed that they were fine. Since they still trembled with fear and couldn’t stand staying in the hospital for one more minute. Then we left the hospital, and made it home safely.
God is He on Whom the Existence of All Mankind Rests
Back at home, I read God’s words: “Man’s heart and spirit are held in the hand of God, everything of his life is beheld in the eyes of God. Regardless of whether or not you believe this, any and all things, whether living or dead, will shift, change, renew, and disappear in accordance with God’s thoughts. Such is the way in which God presides over all things” (“God Is the Source of Man’s Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). We could escape unscathed and survive in this accident, that owed to the care and protection of God. It enabled me to see the almightiness and sovereignty of God, and to realize that the life and death of man is all in God’s hand. From my heart I believed: The incarnate God is exactly the one true God and only He can save us. As long as we truly believe in Him and depend on Him, we will gain His care, protection and blessing. After that, I saw more of God’s words: “I once agreed to join man and walk together with him—and yes, unto this day man has lived under My care and protection, but will there ever come a day when man can separate himself from My care? Though man has never laden himself with concern for My heart, who can keep living in a land without light? It is only because of My blessings that man has lived until today” (“Chapter 28” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). “Without My existence, mankind will only perish and suffer the scourge of calamity. No human being will ever again see the beauteous sun and moon, or the verdant world; mankind shall encounter only the frigid night and the inexorable valley of the shadow of death. I am mankind’s only salvation. I am mankind’s only hope and, even more, I am He on whom the existence of all mankind rests” (“Prepare Sufficient Good Deeds for Your Destination” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). The words of God are eminently practical. No matter how great the disaster is, people will be able to survive if they have God to take care and protect them; without God’s care, they will lose their life in all kinds of disasters at any time and any place. Nowadays, calamities are all around and disasters befall one after another. If we don’t believe in God, we will have nothing to rely on when disasters strike us, and will only end up beating upon our breast and mourning and grinding our teeth. The experience of God’s protection for me in this accident has allowed me to have more faith to follow God. Aside from this, my husband now is also supportive of my belief in God. Through living the church life, I enjoy the provision and nourishment of God’s word together with brothers and sisters, and I am especially nourished and feel sweetness and joy in my spirit!
