Believers can always depend upon the providence and provision of God.
Case in point: There once was a young Christian named Brenda who had
been invited by friends to go rock climbing.
Despite the fact that she had never climbed any farther than out of her
bed in the morning, Brenda decided to face her fears and accept the invitation of
her persuasive friends to quite literally go where she had never gone before.
As the group of friends approached the massive
granite cliff, Brenda’s fear of heights kicked in; nevertheless she gamely
donned her climbing gear, secured her rope, and started to scale the face of
the rocky cliff. Finally, they reached a
ledge where she could rest and regroup.
However, while suspended on the ledge of the cliff, Brenda’s safety rope
snapped and struck her in the eye, dislodging her contact lens.
So there she was, completely gripped by fear
and hanging precariously on a rocky ledge, with hundreds of feet below and
hundreds of feet yet to ascend. Brenda
looked and looked, hoping to find her contact lens on that ledge, but it just
wasn’t there. Panic rose in her throat
and Brenda felt so far from home and safety.
To make matters worse, her eyesight was extremely blurry without the lens. Growing more desperate by the moment, Brenda
looked Heavenward and prayed to the Lord for help to remain calm and to find
the missing contact lens.
After a few moments, Brenda conquered her
fears and soon made it to the top of the granite cliff. Once there, her friends examined her eye and
her clothing, but the lens was nowhere to be found. As Brenda looked out at the range of hills
and mountains surrounding them, she recalled a scripture verse: “The eyes of
the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong.” (II
Chronicles 16:9) She thought prayerfully
to herself, “Lord, YOU see all of these mountains. YOU know every rock and every stone…and YOU
know exactly where my contact lens is…so please help me.”
Later on, as they walked down the back trail
to the bottom of the cliff, they met up with a party of climbers who had recently
completed their ascent and descent. One
of them shouted out, “Hey you guys!
Anybody lose a contact lens?” It
was startling enough that this climber had actually found Brenda’s tiny lens
among all the dirt and rocks on the cliff, but how he discovered the lens was
even more incredible. A tiny ant was
moving slowly across the face of the rocky cliff…carrying Brenda’s contact lens
on its back! WOW!
Brenda’s father was a Christian
cartoonist. When she shared her
phenomenal testimony about the missing contact lens, the ant, and the prayer,
he drew a cartoon picture of the tiny ant lugging the contact lens on its
back. Underneath the picture, he wrote
this powerful faith caption: “Lord, I don’t know WHY you want me to carry this
heavy thing. I can’t eat it…I don’t know
what it is…and it’s awfully heavy. But
if YOU want me to do it…I’ll carry it…for YOU!”
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