THE ANT AND THE CONTACT LENS

a true story by Josh and Karen Zarandona

A little of this... and a little of that...

Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go  rock climbing. Although she was very scared, 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.

She got to a ledge where she could take  breather, and as she was hanging on there, the  safety rope snapped against her face and knocked out her contact lens.  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.

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 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?"

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  on it's back.

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 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. Yes, I do love God. He is my source of  existence and my saviour. He keeps me functioning  each and every day. Without Him, I am  nothing,   but with Him...I can do all things through  Christ which strengthens me. (Phil. 4:13)