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.
“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 soldier. “I had forgotten that with 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 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.
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Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”