A story about faith...

              The ant and the contact lens......

             Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go
 
             rock climbing. Although she was very scared, she

             went with her group to a tremendous granite

             cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the

             gear, took hold of 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.  So here she was

             on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her

             and hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she

             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 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 was startling

             enough, but do you know why the climber saw it?

             An ant was moving slowly across the face of the

             rock, carrying it on it's back.

             Brenda told me 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."

            Just trust that He knows what He's doing...
 




Thanks for my friend sending this wonderful withness to me.