Psalm 143:8-9 Cause me to hear Your
loving kindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way
in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. Deliver me, O Lord, from
my enemies; In You I take shelter.
Last week, when we were in the midst
of a war, I stumbled across this amazing story that I wanted to share.
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 are stronger than a brick wall."
For you, God's resources to protect
you are vast. When you pray for protection, believe that He hears you and is
able to manage it with great skill, and even perhaps a stroke of humor.
Nant Angie
