My Daughter at Death’s Door: I Witness a Miracle by Praying to God (1)
By Wang Yue
God’s Words Comfort Me After My Daughter Is Involved in a Sudden Car Accident
It was gone 11 a.m. on the morning of October 8, 2011 and I was just preparing lunch at home, when suddenly the phone rang. As soon as I answered it, the person calling said anxiously, “Your Lanlan has been in a car accident and they’re trying to save her at the county hospital. You’d best get here as soon as you can!” Hearing this, I felt a loud buzzing in my head, and before I’d said anything, the other person hung up. After I’d put the phone down, I just stood there for a while, thinking: “My daughter went out on her bicycle this morning to run some errands. How could she have been in a car accident? It’s just a prank call, isn’t it? But their tone didn’t sound like they were trying to trick me….” I didn’t have time to think any more, so I stopped what I was doing and left the house. I hurriedly waved down a cab and rushed to the county hospital. I was so worried as I sat in the cab that I clenched my fists tightly together, and I just kept looking out the window. I felt totally confused and upset and I couldn’t stop thinking: “How badly hurt is my daughter? Where has she been hurt? Is her life in danger? She’s only 17. She must be really scared being in the hospital on her own….” The more I thought about it, the more panicky I got, and I couldn’t calm down. I wanted to be there instantly by my daughter’s side to see what exactly the situation was. In my helplessness, I thought of God, and then quickly I called on God in my heart: “O God! I hear that my daughter has been in a car accident. My heart is in turmoil and I’m really worried, and I don’t know how my daughter is right now or how bad her injuries are. O God! I ask that You protect my heart so that I may keep calm before You. However serious my daughter’s injuries are, give me the courage to face it all.” After praying, I thought of these words of God: “[F]or I am your Father; I am your strong tower, I am your shelter, and I am your backup. Moreover, I am your Almighty One; I am your all!” (“Chapter 109” of Utterances of Christ in the Beginning). Yes, God is almighty, and He holds sovereignty over everything and administers all things. God is our strong backup and He is our greatest support. I should entrust my daughter to God and rely on God as I experience this situation. As I thought this, my panicked heart gradually began to calm down.
God’s Wondrous Protection at the Time of the Car Accident
When I arrived at the county hospital, I rushed into the emergency room and saw lying on a hospital bed my daughter streaked all over with blood. Her face had turned purple and her breathing was very labored. Seeing her with such severe injuries, my heart leapt into my throat and I didn’t know what to do for the best. My daughter then said in a weak voice, “Mommy.” I grasped her hand and lightly stroked her face. My lips trembled, my heart was in such inexpressible pain and tears blurred my eyes. Just then, standing to the side, the female driver who had hit my daughter kept apologizing to me, and from her I learned how the accident had come about. It turned out that, after she had been hit, my daughter had been rolled and crushed underneath the car. Because the undercarriage of the woman’s car was so low, my daughter had become pinned underneath, and the people around had been unable to drag her out. The situation was critical and, just as people were feeling like they could do nothing more for her, my daughter unexpectedly crawled out from under the car. When I heard this, I just kept thanking God in my heart for protecting my daughter. At that moment, the doctor came in and said anxiously, “I see you are a family member. When your daughter was crushed under the car, her lungs were severely compressed. Now her breathing is very labored and there is persistent bleeding from the lower part of her body. I recommend that you go to the provincial hospital, otherwise your daughter may not survive!” When I heard the doctor say this, my heart almost broke. So that my daughter’s injuries could be treated in time, I decided to transfer her to the provincial hospital immediately, and I called my husband and my family to tell them what had happened.
As the ambulance raced along the highway, the air inside was very stagnant and I felt so anxious that my heart was clenched like a fist. I dared not take my eyes off my daughter even for a moment. Just then, my daughter opened her eyes and said again in a weak voice, “Mommy. I can’t catch my breath….” Seeing her in such pain and suffering, I became even more nervous, and I was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to endure what was happening to her. I gripped her hand tightly and lay down next to her, and quietly spoke comforting words in her ear, “Don’t be afraid, Lanlan. Let’s pray and rely on God and believe that He is our backup. Just hold on a little while longer. We’ll soon be at the provincial hospital.” My daughter blinked her eyes, signaling to me that she had understood. At that time, seeing her injured all over and at death’s door, I felt greatly pained and couldn’t help but weaken a little. I thought: “What will I do if my daughter really doesn’t pull through?” I couldn’t bring myself to think about it anymore. I just kept calling on God to give me faith and strength, and asking God to lead me in facing whatever would come next.
God Comes to the Rescue in the Face of Man’s Indifference
Two and a half hours later we had arrived at the emergency room of the Provincial People’s Hospital. We waited for the doctor to come and treat her, but when the doctor did come, he took one look at my daughter’s injuries and said in an unconcerned manner, “This patient is in a serious condition. We have no room in the inpatient department, and there are no beds in the emergency room. You’d best contact another hospital quickly.” Then he turned about and walked off. My husband and some relatives who’d come along quickly made calls to some large hospitals nearby, but they all turned out to be full and there was simply no room for my daughter. Moreover, if we went to another hospital, her treatment would be delayed again and I was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to hold on that long. Seeing my daughter’s breathing so weak and in such distress that she could hardly breathe at all, I felt torn with anxiety: “Aren’t doctors supposed to help people? How can they see her in such a condition and not try to save her? If my daughter doesn’t get treatment in time, then she will be in danger of dying at any minute!” I was so worried, and I wished so much that a kindhearted doctor would come and save my daughter, but none were willing to show their face and try to help. I was going out of my mind with worry, and despair and fear were taking over my heart. In my helplessness, once again I called urgently on God: “O God! My daughter’s condition is so critical, and this hospital won’t take her. I just don’t know what to do. O God! All things are in Your hands, and I ask You to open a way for us!” After praying, God’s words came clearly into my mind: “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”). Yes! God is the sovereign of all things and the thoughts and ideas of every single person are in His hands. Whether doctors treated my daughter or not, when they treated her and whether or not my daughter was in mortal danger were all up to God. I should believe in and obey God’s sovereignty and arrangements, and look to God and entrust my daughter to Him. With the enlightenment and guidance of God’s words, I didn’t feel so anxious anymore, and I became willing to rely on God and await His arrangements.
Half an hour later, the doctor who had come before came again and, seeing that we were still there, he asked us what was going on. After hearing that every other hospital around was full, he stood there for a moment, and then suddenly he said to us, “Come on, hurry and push your daughter into the corridor. I’ll give her some basic treatment.” At that moment, tears of emotion blurred my eyes. I knew that it wasn’t that the doctor had any medical ethics, but that God had heard my prayer and had moved the doctor to treat my daughter. It was God’s deed! I kept thanking God in my heart, and I truly came to appreciate that God is always by our side as our constant support!
God’s Words Give Me Faith as My Daughter’s Life Hangs in the Balance
After the doctor had given my daughter a rudimentary checkup, he saw that she kept bleeding from her lower body and asked us to hurry to the gynecology department. After the doctor there had checked her over, he immediately arranged for her to have an operation. After the operation, they called the orthopedics department and told them to prepare a bed for her as soon as possible. When my daughter got to the orthopedics department, it was gone 11 p.m. The attending physician of the orthopedics department consulted with a thoracic specialist and an internal medicine specialist, and then called my husband and me into his office. He said that our daughter was in a critical condition. Her bones had not been too seriously damaged, but her lungs had been severely compressed, which had caused them to swell and become inflamed, which was the reason why she was having difficulty breathing. Because inflammation and swelling takes time to go down, he said, the next three days would be the most dangerous time for our daughter. She could pass away at any time, and the doctor asked us to prepare for the worst. Hearing the doctor say that my daughter could die at any time, my heart was cloven with pain and I didn’t want to hear anymore. With eyes filled with tears, I turned and ran back to the ward. I gripped my daughter’s hand so tightly, afraid that she could leave me at any moment. Seeing her lying in the hospital bed unconscious and hardly breathing, I thought of every twinkle and every smile she had ever had since she was small, and it was agony. As I tightly held onto her hand, I was wracked with sobs, and fear flooded every nerve in my body. I thought to myself, “Is there really no hope? Am I really to see my child die before me?” In despair, I called out to God over and over in my heart, saying: “O God! The doctor says my daughter could die at any time and I’m so afraid! O God! I ask You to lead me to face this situation….”
After praying, some words from a hymn of God’s words floated clearly into my mind: “Faith is like a single log bridge: Those who cling abjectly to life will have difficulty in crossing it, but those who are ready to sacrifice themselves can pass over, sure of foot and worry-free. If man harbors timid and fearful thoughts, it is because Satan has fooled them, afraid that we will cross the bridge of faith to enter into God” (Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs). The enlightenment and guidance of God’s words enabled me to understand that I was feeling all this fear and pain because I had no faith in God, and that I did not truly believe that God administers everything to do with man, including life and death. I was therefore unwittingly living in terror and fear, I had fallen for Satan’s trickery and been played for a fool by Satan. Although I knew that God holds sovereignty over all things, I understood and acknowledged this fact only theoretically, and I had not come to understand God’s sovereignty through real experience. When I heard the doctor say, therefore, that my daughter could die at any time, I became incredibly fearful, believing that it was up to the doctor whether my daughter lived or not. If he said that my daughter could lose her life, I had thought, then there was no way my daughter could escape this misfortune. But when I thought about it carefully, when my daughter was hit by the car and had been rolled underneath it, and the people around were at their wits’ end as to what to do, it was God’s protection of my daughter that had allowed her to miraculously crawl out from under the car; when the doctor had been unwilling to treat my daughter, through praying and calling on God, God had changed the doctor’s mind and made him treat my daughter. Through these deeds, God had shown me His authority and power, thus enabling me to see His almightiness and sovereignty and wonderful deeds. All things are orchestrated and arranged by God, and He holds in His hands man’s destiny, life and death. God has the final say on all things, not the doctors. How could my faith have been so small as to believe what the doctor had said and to have been fooled by Satan? I had been so ignorant! Right then I realized that God had permitted this to happen in order to perfect my faith in Him, to make me believe that God rules all things no matter what situation I experience, and to make me truly obedient to God. Only in this way would I be able to see through and fight back against Satan’s trickeries, and not be fooled by Satan and live in pain and fear. Once I’d understood God’s will, I said a prayer of obedience to God: No matter what became of my daughter, I wished to obey God’s sovereignty and arrangements, and approach them correctly. Gradually, my heart felt much more at ease.
Source From: The Church of Almighty God
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