Sent by Violet Poh • Oct 22, 2023
I am Violet. I come from a Taoist background. My late father was a Taoist priest to the Nine Emperor Gods. We had different types of gods and ancestral idols in my home. My parents would burn incense sticks every day and night but they didn’t ask their children to follow. Only on special occasions or big Taoist festivals were we the children required to join in to pray. When I was young I was dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy to receive her protection. Although my family practised all these activities, I didn’t relate at all to all these gods.
When I was in college, a Christian sister who was a stranger to me approached me to ask whether I would agree to do one-to-one bible study with her. I said yes to her and so began my journey to know Christianity. I felt touched by the fact that Jesus loved me, He died for me no matter who I was, and He redeemed me from my sin. I was also surrounded with other Christian friends who brought me to church, and from then on I learned more about Christianity, and finally accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.
My mum was angry with me after she found out that I had accepted Jesus. She tore my Bible and told me to either leave the house or reject my faith in Jesus if I wanted to stay. I was prevented from going to church. Since I was still studying, I couldn’t do very much about the situation except to stop going to church. But I still met up with my Christian friends at college and hand-copied bible verses starting from the New Testament into my notebook. I didn’t really change that much after my salvation, I didn’t transform from a bad girl to a good girl. I was still an ordinary young girl.
God is faithful and has been protecting me in all that I have done or gone through all these years. The most significant event was on 4 December 2019 while I was driving my car back home after working in church. I think I was in the middle lane of a 3-lane highway when suddenly a car driving on the fast lane cut across in front of my car. I tried to avoid it but lost control and hit the divider. When the front of my car hit the divider, my car being light lifted up and turned turtle and flipped over to the opposite side of the road.
I still remember there were lots of people running towards my car and checking on me. But Jesus had protected me, I was totally fine and didn’t have any injuries, not even a tiny scratch. The people asked me to open the passenger car door and tried to help me out, but it was quite difficult for me to climb out. Then another person suggested that I open the boot lid and go out from there. Praise the Lord that all the doors were still functioning and I managed to get out of the car.
My car was declared a total loss which means it was too damaged to be repaired at all, but I was fine and didn’t have any side effects or trauma after the accident. I could still drive to work the next day and could remember the incident clearly enough to share with others to glorify God for His goodness and faithfulness to me.
This is the car accident photo that a stranger at the scene helped to take and share with me.
