A Word from the Spider

What caught my eye in the early morning hour in front of the working coffee pot was a tiny black object dropping rapidly from the bottom of the cabinet above to the flat counter top below.  Before there was time to rub an eye still half asleep, I could see a tiny almost invisible silk like thread hanging there in the air.  It was a dead give away.  The tiny black object drifting downward was a spider and it was in the very early stages of making a web.  Spiders are intricately made creatures who throw that first line of silk like thread into the air allowing the currents of the wind to carry it to its destination.    

Most of us do a lot more planning in our life than the spider who trusts one tiny silk like thread to carry it to wherever.  When Jesus said, "Follow me," He did say something about the task ahead with His words about being fishers of men, but He never said anything about where the task would be done (Matthew 4:19).  His call is always a call to go wherever it is that He chooses to put us and the only resource upon which we are to depend is Him.  To trust in the line He casts for us to take leads us to the success of faithfulness and to choose another is to end up frustrated along the way and disillusioned at the end.   

It is hard to choose the road to wherever.  In the beginning it is really not the way we choose.  We start out hearing the call to follow, but we have our own notions about what that means and where it will  take us.  If we stay at it long enough, we will come to the moment of understanding that we had it all wrong in the beginning.  The call of Christ is not a call to specifics we can comprehend, but to a life that is always changing, impossible to predict, and only something which can be accomplished through absolute trust in the One who sends the Wind to direct our way.