During World War II, a soldier was separated from
his unit on an 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. He found several small caves.
Quickly he crawled inside one of the caves.
Although safe for the moment, he realized that once
the enemy soldiers looking for him can quickly search all the caves and would
be killed. He prayed, "Lord, please spare my life. Whatever will happen, 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 the
web over the front of his 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, but then he heard the
leader of the soldiers say, "You may as well ignore looking in this cave.
If he had entered here, this web would be broken!" So they left and he was
delivered!
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," he prayed. "I had forgotten that in
you, a spider's web is stronger than a brick wall."
God's ways are not our ways; God's thoughts are not
our thoughts. He will neither leave us nor forsake us. Let's trust in God
always!!
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