Friday, December 16, 2005
LESSON FROM THE ANT
LESSON FROM THE ANT
Author Unknown
Dec 16, 2005
Lesson from the ant: Overcoming our daily struggles..
Hope this ant can inspire us to overcome our daily struggles...
Brenda was a young woman that wanted to learn to go rock climbing.
Although she was scared to death she went with a group and they
faced this tremendous cliff of rock. Practically perpendicular. In
spite of her fear, she put on the gear and she took a hold of the
rope and she 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,
whoever was holding the rope up at the top of the cliff made a
mistake and snapped the rope against Brenda's eye and knocked out
her contact lens. You know how tiny contact lenses are and how
almost impossible to find. Well, here she is on a rock ledge, with
who knows how many hundreds of feet behind and hundreds of feet
above her. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping that
she would be able to find that contact lens.
Here she was, very far from home. Her sight was now blurry. She was
very upset by the fact that she wouldn't be anywhere near a place
where she could get a new contact lens. And she prayed that the Lord
would help her to find it. Well, her last hope was that perhaps when
she got to the top of the cliff, one of the girls that was up there
on the top might be able to find her contact lens in the corner of
her eye. When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye. There
was no contact lens to be found. She sat down with the rest of the
party, waiting for the rest of them to come 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 throughout the whole earth." She thought, "Lord, You can
see all these mountains. You know every single stone and leaf that's
on those mountains and You know exactly where my contact lens is."
Finally, the time came when it was time to go down. They walked down
the trail to the bottom. Just as they got there, there was a new
party of rock climbers coming along. As one of them started up the
face of the cliff, she shouted out, "Hey, you guys! anybody lose a
contact lens?"
Well, that would be startling enough, wouldn't it? She had found the
contact lens! But you know why she saw it? An ant was carrying that
contact lens so that it was moving slowly across the face of the
rock. What does that tell you about the God of the universe? Is He
in charge of the tiniest things? Do ants matter to Him? Of course
they do. He made them. He designed them.
Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him
this incredible story, he drew a picture of that 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."
If God is in charge of the ants, don't you think He cares about you
and me?
I guess Solomon was right. One could learn a valuable lesson from
that ant TRUST IN GOD!
We could probably all say a little more often, "God, I don't know
why you want me to carry this load. I see no good in it and it's
awfully heavy. Still, if you want me to, I'll carry it for You."
PRAYER
"Lord, may your peace be always with me. May no circumstance,
trouble, or vexation rob me of the peace which passes all
understanding. You, alone, O Lord, are my Peace. May I always reside
in that peace by believing your word and by doing your will."
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