God Cares...

I found this article in my computer today. Something that reminded me that God cares for us and we are never too little or too small to be used by God...

THE ANT

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 throughout 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, she 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? I guess Solomon was right. One could learn a valuable
lesson from that 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 in it and it's awfully heavy. Still, if you want me to, I'll carry it for You."