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The
Ant and The Contact Lens
Josh
and
Karen Zarandona
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.
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.
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."
This is a wonderful reminder that God often has
plans for us that we cannot know. We need to have faith in His
plans for our lives.
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