07-03-2006, 04:17 PM
Brenda was almost halfway to the top of the tremendous granite
cliff.
She was standing on a ledge where she was taking a breather during this,
her
first rock climb. As she rested there, the safety rope snapped against
her
eye and knocked out her contact lens. "Great", she thought. "Here
I am
on a
rock ledge, hundreds of feet from the bottom and hundreds of feet to the
top
of this cliff, and now my sight is blurry."
She looked and looked, hoping that somehow it had landed on the
ledge.
But it just wasn't there.
She felt the panic rising in her, so she began praying. She prayed
for
calm, and she prayed that she may find her contact lens.
When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her
clothing
for the lens, but it was not to be found. Although she was calm now that
she
was at the top, she was saddened because she could not clearly see
across
the range of mountains. She thought of the bible verse "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."
Later, when they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the
cliff
they met another 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 a twig on the face of the rock,
carrying
it!
The story doesn't end there. Brenda's father is a cartoonist. When
she
told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact
lens,
he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that contact lens with the caption,
"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 do all of us some good to 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. :wings:
cliff.
She was standing on a ledge where she was taking a breather during this,
her
first rock climb. As she rested there, the safety rope snapped against
her
eye and knocked out her contact lens. "Great", she thought. "Here
I am
on a
rock ledge, hundreds of feet from the bottom and hundreds of feet to the
top
of this cliff, and now my sight is blurry."
She looked and looked, hoping that somehow it had landed on the
ledge.
But it just wasn't there.
She felt the panic rising in her, so she began praying. She prayed
for
calm, and she prayed that she may find her contact lens.
When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her
clothing
for the lens, but it was not to be found. Although she was calm now that
she
was at the top, she was saddened because she could not clearly see
across
the range of mountains. She thought of the bible verse "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."
Later, when they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the
cliff
they met another 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 a twig on the face of the rock,
carrying
it!
The story doesn't end there. Brenda's father is a cartoonist. When
she
told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact
lens,
he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that contact lens with the caption,
"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 do all of us some good to 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. :wings: