THE ANT
AND THE CONTACT LENS
THOSE
WHO HOPE IN THE LORD - MIDI DOWNLOAD
Brenda was
a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was very
scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite
of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started
up the face of that rock.
Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was hanging
on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked out
her contact lens.
Well, here she
is, on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of feet
above her. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping it had landed
on the ledge, but it just wasn't there. Here she was, far from home, her
sight now blurry. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed
to the Lord to help her to find it.
When she got to
the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but there
was no contact lens to be found. She sat down, despondent, with the rest
of the party, waiting for the rest of them to make it up the face of the
cliff.
She looked out
across range after range of mountains, thinking of that Bible verse that
says, "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth."
She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every
stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help
me."
Finally, they
walked down the trail to the bottom. At the bottom there was a new
party of climbers just
starting up the face
of the cliff. One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact
lens?"
Well, that would
be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it?
An ant was moving
slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it on it's back.
Brenda told me
that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story
of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a picture of an ant
lugging that contact lens with the words,
"Lord, I don't know
why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it's awfully heavy.
But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You."
I think it would
probably do some of us good to
occasionally say, "God,
I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it
and it's awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I will."
God doesn't call
the qualified, He qualifies the called. Yes, I do love GOD. He is my source
of existence and my savior. He keeps me functioning each and every day.
Without Him, I am nothing, but with Him I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me. (Phil 4:13)
~~A true story
by Josh and Karen Zarandona~~
