ROCK CLIMBING

Brenda was a young woman that wanted to learn to go rock climbing.Although she was scared to death she went with a group and they facedthis tremendous cliff of rock. It was practically perpendicular. Inspite of her fear, she put on the gear and she took a hold of the ropeand she started up the face of that rock.

Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she washanging on there, whoever was holding the rope up at the top of thecliff made a mistake and snapped the rope against Brenda's eye andknocked out her contact lens. You know how tiny contact lenses are andhow almost impossible to find.

Well, here she is on a rock ledge, withwho know how many hundreds of feet behind and hundreds of feet aboveher. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping that she wouldbe able to find that contact lens. Here she was, very far from home.Her sight was now blurry. She was very upset by the fact that shewouldn't be anywhere near a place where she could get a new contactlens. And she prayed that the Lord would help her to find it.

Well, her last hope was that perhaps when she got to the top of thecliff, one of the girls that was up there on the top might be able tofind her contact lens in the corner of her eye. When she got to thetop, a friend examined her eye. There was no contact lens to be found.

She sat down with the rest of the party, waiting for the rest of themto come up the face of the cliff. She looked out across range afterrange of mountains, thinking of that Bible verse that says, "The eyes ofthe Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth." She thought, "Lord,You can see all these mountains. You know every single stone and leafthat's on those mountains and You know exactly where my contact lensis."

Finally, the time came when it was time to go down. They walked downthe trail to the bottom. Just as they got there, there was a new partyof rock climbers coming along. As one of them started up the face ofthe cliff, she shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contactlens?"

Well, that would be startling enough, wouldn't it? She had found thecontact lens! But you know why she saw it? An ant was carrying thatcontact lens so that it was moving slowly across the face of the rock.What does that tell you about the God of the universe? Is He in chargeof the tiniest things? Do ants matter to Him? Of course they do. Hemade them. He designed them.

Brenda told me that her father is acartoonist. When she told him this incredible story, he drew a pictureof that ant lugging that contact lens (as you see in the comics with aballoon with words in it over his head) with the words: "Lord, I don'tknow why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it and it'sawfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it forYou." If God is in charge of the ants, don't you think He cares aboutyou and me?

I guess Solomon was right. One could learn a valuable lesson fromthat ant
      trust in God. We could probably all say a little more often,"God, I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I see no good init and it's awfully heavy. Still, if you want me to, I'll carry it forYou."