Friday, March 28, 2014

God the spider

A nice story I read 
"DESPITE ANY LIFE OBSTACLE, EVEN THE DIREST OF CIRCUMSTANCE YOU ARE IN, YOUR FAITH IN GOD WILL CERTAINLY ENABLE YOU OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE."
 God can even use a simple spider web to build a wall of protection around His children.
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.
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.
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.
"Ha, 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."
We all face times of great trouble. When we do, it is so easy to forget the victories that God would work in our lives, sometimes in the most surprising ways.




9 comments:

  1. Inspiring story ! Most often we forget the many ways we would have been saved from adverisity. God bespeaks in a way which is best for us though we hardly realise it at the moment.

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  2. I have read this story in so many ways...but good and simple one!

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  3. life is good! :)
    Thank you for this.

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  4. A very good, inspiring story! This happens to everybody in some way or the other, though we never come to know of it!

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  5. A very nice story. If only we can leave the planning to the Universe instead of breaking our heads, pondering on stupid ideas, we can come out safely from any kind of situations

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  6. Such a lovely story. Prayer worked! Saved his life. God really listens :)

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  7. sometimes too much thinking renders us inactive.
    Nice read !!

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  8. This post brought me tears, reinforced my faith and made me stop questioning Him that I did all through this week. God has his own ways of consoling me, He chose your post today, thank you!

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