[nukkad] God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

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  There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity 
of manual labour.  -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
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  Hi
  I received this forwarded email which makes a good reading. The mail
  definitely carries an important message.

  Thanks
  Harish

  This is a good story that shows how God has a purpose in everything
  that He asks us to do. God will never lay something upon your heart
  without a great purpose behind it. Hope this message encourages
  your heart to continually trust the Lord and know that He has great
  plans for your life even though you might not see it right now.
  (Jeremiah 29:11)

  THE ANT AND THE CONTACT LENS

  Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing.
  Although she was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous
  granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold
  on the rope, and started up the face of that rock.

  Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was
  hanging on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and
  knocked out her contact lens.

  Here she is, on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and
  hundreds of feet above her! Of course, she looked and looked and
  looked, hoping the lens had landed on the ledge, but it just wasn't
  there.

  Here she was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate
  and began to get upset, so she prayed to the Lord to help her find her
  lens.

  When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing
  for the lens, but there was no contact lens to be found. She sat
  down, despondent, with the rest of the party, waiting for the rest of
  them to make it up the face of the cliff.

  She looked out across range after range of mountains, thinking of that
  verse that reads, "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the
  whole earth." She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains.
  You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact
  lens is. Please help me."

  Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom. At the bottom,
  there was a new party of climbers just starting up the face of the
  cliff.  One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a
  contact lens?"

  That would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it?
  An ant was moving slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it on
  its back.

  Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist and when she told him
  the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he
  drew a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words,
  "Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat
  it, and it's awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do,
  I'll carry it for you."

  It would probably do some of us good to occasionally say,
  "God, I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I can see no
  good in it and it's awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I
  will."

  God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.


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