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God, I Don't Know Why You Want Me To Carry This Load

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This is supposed to be a true story. I have no idea if it is. No deep theology here, just an interesting, thought provoking read.

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Brenda 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 may 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!   The story doesn't end there. Brenda's father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that contact lens with the caption, "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."
  I think it would do all of us 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."
  God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
  Yes, I do love GOD. He is my source of existence and my Savior. 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)

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This reminds me of several years ago when I had some new gas lines run in the basement and one of the workers accidently broke a part on my sump pump. It seemed I should be able to rig some stuff that would make it operable again but everything I tried kept going wrong. Try as I might, nothing seemed to work and I kept getting more and more frustrated. Finally my head cleared enough that I actually "thought" and I decided to take some time out and pray about the matter.

 

After some time in prayer I walked back over to the pump, looked down at it, and as if by direct deposit the solution became instantly clear. Not only that, but when I set forth to perform the repair it went so smoothly while prior to that it seemed like I continually needed a third or fourth hand. After finishing the task, I tried it and everything worked just as if it had never been broken.

 

Right then and there I took a step back. kneeled down in that old basement, took the hat off my head and gave bowed head thanks to God and spent some time like that in praise and adoration.

 

Our God is so wonderfully amazing!

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That's so true. It really aggravates me when I catch myself struggling with something and then think, "DUH! How about talking to God about the matter?"

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Thankfully I can look back and see much progress in this area. It's like the frustration Paul had with hating that the things he wanted to do he found himself not doing while catching himself doing what he didn't want to.

 

It's that constant battle with our sin nature. We want so much to walk in the Spirit rather than the flesh but that flesh just won't give up.

 

Come quickly Lord Jesus!

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Struggle, pray, struggle, pray . . . . story of my life.  Matt 17:20-21

 
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
 
21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
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One mountain range after another.  Oh Lord, how I long for that kind of faith.

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