THE ANT & THE CONTACT LENS!!!

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THE ANT & THE CONTACT LENS!!!

 

Brenda was almost halfway to the top of the tremendous granite cliff. She was

standing on a ledge where she was taking a breather during this, her first rock

climb. As she rested there, the safety rope snapped against her eye and knocked

out her contact lens.

 

" Great " , she thought. " Here I am on a rock ledge, hundreds of feet from the

bottom and hundreds of feet to the top of this cliff, and now my sight is

blurry. "

 

She looked and looked, hoping that somehow the lens had landed on the ledge. But

it just wasn't there.

 

She felt the panic rising in her, so she began praying. She prayed for calm, and

she prayed that she may find her contact lens.

 

When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the

lens, but it was not to be found. Although she was calm now that she was at the

top, she was saddened because she could not clearly see across the range of

mountains.

 

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. "

 

Later, when they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the cliff they met

another 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 a twig on the face of the rock, carrying it!

 

Brenda's father was a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the

ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that

contact lens with the caption, " 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 do all of us some good to 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.