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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 faced this tremendous cliff of
rock. Practically perpendicular. In spite of her fear,
she put on the gear and she took a hold of the rope and
she 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, whoever was holding the rope up at the
top of the cliff made a mistake and snapped the rope
against Brenda's eye and knocked out her contact lens.
You know how tiny contact lenses are and how almost
impossible to find. Well, here she is on a rock ledge,
with who know how many hundreds of feet behind and
hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she looked and
looked and looked, hoping that she would be 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
she wouldn't be anywhere near a place where she could get
a new contact lens. 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 the cliff, one of the girls that was up there
on the top might be able to find her contact lens in the
corner of her eye. When she got to the top, 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 them to come 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 through out the whole
earth." She thought, "Lord, You can see all
these mountains. You know every single stone and leaf
that's on those mountains and You know exactly where my
contact lens is."
Finally, the time came when it was time to go down.
They walked down the trail to the bottom. Just as they
got there, there was a new party of rock climbers coming
along. As one of them started 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, wouldn't it?
She had found the contact lens! But you know why she
saw it? An ant was carrying that contact 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
charge of the tiniest things? Do ants matter to Him? Of
course they do. He made them. He designed them.
Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When
she told him this incredible story, he drew a picture of
that ant lugging that contact lens (as you see in the
comics with a balloon with words in it over his head)
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."
If God is in charge of the ants, don't you think He
cares about you and me?"
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the
same let Jehovah's name be praised. Psalm 113:3
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