Our Own Web

Have you noticed there is an abundance of cobwebs this summer? It might have something to do with the dry weather.  The good thing about the dry weather is not as many mosquitoes. And that’s a good thing. The bad thing is I seem to find myself walking into some web wherever I’m walking. Of course you have seen the web dance many times. Oh, you have done that dance yourself? Nice.

My next door neighbour does not like cobwebs. In fact, when I have invited him over to do some plumbing work for us in our basement, he lets me know he won’t go downstairs without me going first. I have to knock them down first before he follows. I understand fully. But can you imagine how a fly feels when he flies right into one and can’t get out?

The same thing happens to us in life. Walter Scott wrote in 1806 about “the tangled webs we weave”. Maybe we do. Unfortunately we believe we need this web to protect us as well. Maybe our lives develop into the mess they become because we control it ourselves. Not so when we hand our lives over to God. You see, Scott wrote more than these five words. He continues on with six more, “what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise to deceive!” HMMMMM.  And there you have it. We put up an intricate array of threads in our life that may eventually entrap us themselves.

To protect our heart, we don’t need a web for protection. Another echo from the past is found in Job 8: “Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.

What they trust in is fragile; what they rely on is a spider’s web.

They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.”

All we need is to accept Christ in our hearts. He will watch over us. It says so in Psalm 121:8

“The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore”.

Something to think about.

Rob