THE ANT AND THE CONTACT LENS A true story by Josh and
Karen Zarandona
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
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 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 on it's back.
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."
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 through
Christ
which strengthens me. (Phil.
4:13)
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