2 Chronicles 16:9A (ESV)
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the
whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward
him.
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. 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 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 lost 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."
It would do each 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.
Dear Lord, we pray for strength for the time You ask us
to carry a heavy load. Thank You for qualifying us for the task You have for
us. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
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