A spider’s web can become a brick wall
Just a reminder that Union Grove/Sylvester UMC will not have Bible Study tonight. New Friendship will host its Church Anniversary on November 11 at 1:00 p.m. The guest speaker will be Pastor Marcus Cheeks of True Light Baptist Church of Jackson, MS. Union Grove/Sylvester UMC will host our Pastor Anniversary on November 17 & 18. Saturday will be the banquet starting at 5:00 p.m. The colors will be orange, gold & white. Guest Pastor for Sunday Service will be Pastor Reginal McCoy of Mt. Nebo MBC of Raleigh, MS. Please come out and help us celebrate our Pastor and Wife.
Marcus Mann will celebrate his 5th Year Anniversary of Preaching Celebration will be on Sunday Nov. 04 at 1 p.m. at First Baptist in Carthage. The guest speaker will be Rev. Dr. Casey Fisher, Pastor of Greater Grove Street MBC of Vicksburg, MS.
Lynch Chapel UMC will host a Community Fun Day on Nov. 03, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 3 p.m. There will be games, face painting, food and much more.
Thanks to Lone Pilgrim Lodge #333 for donating candy that was given to our kids after church on Sunday.
I wanted to leave with a story that was sent to me by Pastor Marcus Mann. 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 man. “I had forgotten that in 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 the victories that God would work in our lives, sometimes in the most surprising ways. As the great leader, Nehemiah, reminded the people of Israel when they faced the task of rebuilding Jerusalem, “In God we will have success!” (Nehemiah 2:20)
Remember: Whatever is happening in your life, with God, a mere spider’s web can become a brick wall of protection.
