Brenda was a young woman who was invited
to go rock climbing. Although she was
scared to death, 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.
She got to a ledge where she
could rest and catch her breath. As she was
hanging on there, the safety rope snapped
against Brenda's eye and knocked out her
contact lens.
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.
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 what? There was an ant moving
slowly across the face of the rock, carrying
it! The ant seemed to say as he lugged the
contact lens along. "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!
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.
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