In a story reported by Husna Yusop in the Malaysian Sun Daily, two sisters who were vacationing in Phuket and were caught up in the devastating tsunami have an amazing story of faith and survival. Chung Eng Lee, 33, and her sister June, 42, were standing in their hotel lobby when they looked outside to see a huge wave that blotted out the sun and crash into the panes of glass in front of them. The two were immediately engulfed in rising water and clung to a hotel pillar as they prayed.
In her testimony, Chung Eng Lee, one of the sisters, recalls that moment in her own words.
“We were looking at the disaster . . . trying to comprehend . . . but it was chaos. Cars were crashing through the building, gas tanks were leaking, roofs were tumbling down, people were screaming. We knew dead bodies were everywhere. All I did was pray and pray, and all I knew was to hold my sister tightly to me so that we would not be separated by the strong wave." “There was this Thai lady who was clinging onto my sister so hard because she could not swim. She was screaming . . . I raised my voice at the Thai lady, so that she could hear me and asked her to stop screaming and not to panic. I told her to calm down and to just pray. I saw how she held on to my sister, and I was worried for my sister in case her weight might have pushed my sister under the water. So I said, ‘Don't scream, don't panic, and don't hold her so tight. It is okay, everything is going to be fine.’ She calmed down immediately and followed exactly what we asked her to do. “My sister has always been very strong in her devotion with the Lord. She knew that she had to save the Thai lady by asking her to accept the Lord as her Savior. I know you will think it is crazy to do so in times like that, but in Christianity, we believe that eternal life begins when you receive Jesus, and we believe that when you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, you automatically go to heaven. And because of that, my sister knew our situation then was life and death and that she felt that if anything should happen to the Thai lady, at least she would end up in heaven. It was really amazing in a crisis like that, that my sister could lead the Thai lady into prayer to accept Christ. The Thai lady accepted Christ then and there, and she joined us to pray, loudly crying out to the Lord." After holding on through the second wave, the sisters were able to swim to a staircase and eventually up to a balcony for safety. “At the balcony,” Chung Eng Lee continued, “I was still holding on to a pole, while my sister went around praying for others, telling them that Jesus will keep us safe from harm. I knew she meant well. She didn't care about her own safety. She knew if anything happened to us, we would go to heaven - BUT she was more concerned for the others. She also wanted them to go to heaven. She kept telling them about Jesus, and she prayed for all of them. She prayed in Jesus' name to break and bind all the fear in them. I noticed some foreigners appreciated her and accepted Christ then and there, while others were calmer after the prayer.” Later after being discharged from a hospital, the sisters followed others to a hilltop where a Thai family gave them dry clothing and allowed them to use the phone. They suffered only minor cuts and bruises in the ordeal. |
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