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Never Doubt

   During World War II, a US marine was separated from his unit on a Pacific Island. The fighting had been intense, and in all the smoke and crossfire, he had lost touch with his companions.

   All alone in the jungle, he could hear the enemy soldiers coming in his direction. Scrambling quickly for cover, he carefully found his way up a high ridge where several small caves in the rock were. Quickly and quietly, he crawled inside one of the caves. Although safe for the moment, he realized that once the enemy soldiers looking for him came up the ridge, they would quickly search all the caves and he would be killed.

   As he waited, he quietly prayed, “Lord, if it is your will, please protect me. Help me to get out of this alive.”

   After praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw close. He prayed again, “Please Lord, protect me.” Suddenly, his eyes focused on something near the entryway. A small little spider began to build a web, covering the front of his cave. As he watched, listening to the enemy searching for him, 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 God has sent me a spider building a flimsy little web.”

   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 cave, 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. He sat there in shock and amazement, suddenly feeling very guilty for his lack of faith in God.

   "Lord, forgive me," prayed the young man. "I doubted your power, and you knew that a spider’s web can so be much stronger than a 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. Just as Nehemiah reminded the people of Israel when they faced the task of rebuilding Jerusalem, "In God, we will have success!”

Let’s remember to trust God always, no matter what happens.

~Ashley Angeles

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