Spider Spared A Soldier’s Life

---

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They
are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future
and a hope( Jeremiah 29:11 )
During World War 2, a soldier was separated from his unit on
an 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 realised 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, please spare my life. Whatever
will happen, 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.
“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
humour.”
As the enemy drew closer he watched from the darkness of his
hide out and could see them searching one cave after another.
As they came to his, he got ready to make his last stand, but
then he heard the leader of the soldiers say:
“you may as well ignore looking in this cave …if he had
entered here this web would be broken!” So they left and he
was delivered!
To his amazement, however, after glancing in the direction of
his cave, they moved on.
Suddenly he realised that with the spider web over the
entrance, his cave looked as if no one had entered for quite a
while.
“Lord, forgive me,” he prayed. “I had forgotten that in you a
spider’s web is stronger than a brick wall. He will use the most
foolish things in this world to confound the wise!
God is your protector, if you believe in him.