 God
and the Spider
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During
World War II, a US marine was separated from his unit
on a Pacific island. The fighting had been intense, and in the
smoke and the crossfire he had lost touch with his comrades. |
Alone
in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction. Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high
ridge
to several small caves in the rock. Quickly he crawled inside
one of the caves. Although safe for the moment, he realized that
once
the enemy soldiers looking for him swept up the ridge, they
would quickly search all the caves and he would be killed. |
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As he waited, he
prayed,
"Lord,
if it be Your will, please protect me.
Whatever Your will though, I love You and trust You.
Amen."
After
praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw
close.
He thought, "Well, I guess the Lord isn't going to help me
out of this one."
Then he saw a spider begin to build a web over the front of his
cave. |
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As
he watched, listening to the enemy searching for him all the
while, the spider layered strand after strand of web across the
opening of the cave.
"Hah,"
he thought. "What I need is a brick wall and what the
Lord has sent me is a spider web. God does have a sense of
humor."
As
the enemy drew closer he watched from the darkness of his hideout
and could see them searching one cave after another. As they came
to his, he got ready to make his last stand.
To his amazement, however, after glancing in the direction of his
cave, they moved on.
Suddenly, he realized that with the spider web over the entrance,
his cave looked as if no one had entered for quite a while. |
"Lord,
forgive me," prayed the young man.
"I had forgotten that in You a spider's web is stronger than a brick
wall."
Author
Unknown
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We
all face times of great trouble.
When we do, it is so easy to forget what God can work in our lives,
sometimes in the most surprising ways.
And remember with God, a mere spider's web becomes a brick wall of
protection.
...With men this
is impossible, but all things are possible with God.
Matthew 19:28 AMP
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