John was the son of missionaries serving the Lord in one of the islands of Indonesia. One day he was riding in a car driven by a native driver, Tukiram, and they were starting across a narrow bamboo bridge. Suddenly a truck came around the bend and started across the bridge from the opposite direction. To avoid hitting the truck Tukiram turned his car to the side. The fragile bamboo gave way and the car with its occupants crashed through the side of the bridge, turned over twice and landed in the river below.
They all might have been killed, but God did something wonderful that morning. The natives, who had gathered by the side of the bridge, soon crawled over the side and began righting the car. There was not much water in the river, and twenty men hauled and heaved until they had the car right side up. When the door was opened, out crawled the occupants, and not on of them was hurt.
How thankful to the Lord were John’s parents! But how much more were they impressed when they learned that another man with his ten children did exactly the same thing on another road, and all were killed instantly.
Sometime later they received a letter from a dear old Christian lady saying she had particularly prayed for them on March 24—that was the very day of the accident. Truly God does answer prayer!
ML-11/05/1978