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.
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 from and
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.
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)