THE ANT AND CONTACT LENS
Wow! This is incredible!! Remember this when things get tough!!!
*The Ant and the Contact Lens: A TRUE STORY *
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 might 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._
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.
submitted by: qls…..edited by: relhurg
