...She 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 it 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 might 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 of the bible verse 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. 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!
How crazy is that? Not only was the ant carrying the contact lens, but another group of climbers saw it. God works in mysterious ways, that's for sure. I can just imagine the ant thinking 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. And we have all been there at some point in our life, right? Thinking to ourselves Why am I carrying this burden? Why am I going through this, can't God use someone else? The point of this post is that, like the ant, I think it would do us all 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."
Just remember, God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called. My prayer is that we will begin to ask God what He's calling us to do, and rather than taking the easy way out. We'll find our strength in Him to carry the load and glorify Him amidst our struggles.
"I can do everything through Him who gives me strength." -Philippians 4:13
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