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 scared
to death, 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.
So, 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 Bible 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. 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."
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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.
