THE SPIDERS' WEB!                 DO 227            5/73
--Proverbs 30:24-28.

         1. YOU HEAR THE WORDS OF THY FATHER? Peace, be still! Thou art like the sea when it cannot rest & hath no peace because of quest. It is not for thee to know the future which I have reserved for My Own judgement according to their hearts. Just love your Father. Trust Him. Put your faith in Me. Trust the Word of God for David.
         2. INDEED, BEAUTY IS THINE LIKE A RARE & PRICELESS JEWEL, but wouldst thou keep it for thyself alone to enjoy its beauty? THE BEAUTY IS ONLY RADIANT WHEN THOU DOST SHARE ITS RADIANCE WITH OTHERS & hold it aloft that it may shine & all may see, & not cover & keep it for thyself alone! But thou must have help to hold up thy arm that its radiance may shine before all. O Jesus! Would that Thou shalt reveal Thy Love & Thy Life which Thou wouldst lay down for many! For he that withholdeth, it tendeth to poverty, but she that scattereth abroad, it increaseth.--Prov.11:24.
         3. GREAT IS THE LOVE OF DAVID, BOUNDLESS IS THE MERCY AT HIS RIGHT HAND, & thou canst not prevent the love that I have given him! Beware lest thou hinderest the sure mercies that I have given unto David & beware lest thou shouldst assay to bottle up the love springs of his forgiveness!
         4. THOU CANST WITHHOLD & THOU CANST GIVE OF HIS HEART AS THOU WILT, & thou canst cause the stream to flow or thou canst shut up & stop even the blessing that I would bestow, even though thou dost suffer for thy silence.
         5. DAVID IS WEARY WITH WEAVING, & the arms that are long have stretched out to take hold from far places! And though it be delicate, it be very strong, & THIS WEB THAT I WEAVE IN MY WISDOM SHALL CATCH MANY. Be not thou selfish therefore, for there is room for many in the web that I weave for them all.
         6. BEHOLD! THE SPIDER IS NOT ENTANGLED IN HIS OWN WEB, nor doth she which helpeth him weave the lines bind herself while SHE RUNNETH & WEAVETH & ATTACHETH THE CORDS OF MY LOVE TO THEIR HEARTS WITH EACH STRAND. But beware lest thou become thyself entangled with thine own love, so thou canst no longer weave & thou canst no longer run to fix each strand upon the heart of another in the places I have ordained for them & thou become entrapped in thine own web that I have made to catch the hearts of many!
         7. BEHOLD HOW THOU DOST WEAVE MANY LINES ATTACHED TO MANY PLACES, BUT ALL ARE LINKED TOGETHER IN SYMMETRY & UNITY & the pattern that I have ordained, of which thou art the heart & these are the body, to TIE THY STRANDS TOGETHER, THAT THOU SHALT CATCH MUCH MEN FOR MY KINGDOM & many souls shall be ensnared by thee & the craft that I have given for My glory!
         8. BEHOLD HOW THE SUN SHINETH UPON THEE & these golden globlets of dew that rest within thy mesh like diamonds upon a necklace of silver thread! Behold the beauty & the creation of the Lord, the design of thy Maker! BEHOLD THE PATTERN WHICH I HAVE MADE, THE PLAN WHICH I HAVE ORDAINED! Thinkest thou that thou canst frustrate the very Will of God? Nay! Beware lest thou thine own self become entangled if thou dost resist or defy My beauty!
         9. CANST THOU NOT SEE IT IS OF MY DESIGN & PATTERN, from the first strand unto the last line? It is all of MY doing & THOU dost but obey Me & string that which thou knowest not & attach line upon line even that which thou dost not understand!--And thou canst not tell whithersoever it goeth or how it looketh from afar! Only from thy Creator canst thou comprehend the mystery that I have made, & yet trusteth thou Me not that I have taught thee? Doth the spider contend with her Maker? Nay, THEY BUT OBEY MY WILL without thought, without understanding, here a little & there a little, line upon line & precept upon precept.
         10. (TONGUES & PRAISES, ARMS EXTENDED WIDE:) OH, WHAT GLORY I HAVE FASHIONED! BEHOLD WHAT BEAUTY I HAVE MADE! Behold thou the Creation of the Lord, that I have created for thee! Behold the palace that I have given thee to dwell in, the castle that is the bastion of My strength, wherein THOU DOST HANG THY SIMPLE WEB & THOU REFLECTEST ONLY MY GLORY, THOU CONTAINEST ONLY MY MOISTURE & CATCHEST ONLY THEM THAT ARE SENT UNTO THEE! FOR THIS IS MY DOING, SAITH THE LORD, & yet thou questioneth? Sayest thou, can this strand go here & that line be there? Nay, thou knowest not what thou doest! Thou dost but climb & affix here & thou dost but drop & attach there & thou dost but run & fasten yet there & thou dost work back & forth as I have led thee, & THOU KNOWEST NOT EVEN THE PATTERN THAT I AM WEAVING by thy hands or what shape it shall take or what form it shall show when thou art finished with the work that I have given thee!
         11. AND YET, DOST THOU RESIST THE ORDER OF THE LORD & DOST THOU QUESTION THE PLAN OF THE MASTER BUILDER? O YE OF LITTLE FAITH, wherefore dost thou doubt! Come unto Me, ye that are weary & heavy-laden. When thou art finished I will give thee rest, when the design is completed thou shalt have rest unto your soul from the burdens that I have given thee, in the meekness & lowliness of My heart. For I make it not too heavy for thee. FOR WERE IT NOT LIGHT, IT WOULD NOT HOLD, & WERE IT NOT STRONG, IT WOULD NOT CLING, & WERE IT NOT WELL WOVEN, IT COULD NOT STAND! But trust in Me & trust that which I have given & the weir that I have woven, that IT SHALL SHINE BRIGHT IN MY HAND IN THE CORNER I HAVE PLACED THEE & IT SHALL BE HONOURED AS A THING OF WONDER unto Man in My wisdom, if thou shalt rest in Me!
         12. SO BEAUTIFUL! SO PRETTY! SO INTRICATE!--Here a little more, there a little more. Watch how He blendeth with the strands of my hands!--See? Can you see it? Isn't it pretty? So beautiful! And IT WAVES IN THE BREEZE & DOES NOT BREAK! IT BENDS WITH THE TREES, BUT IT CANNOT SHAKE! And they cannot shake it off, neither can the Enemy destroy that which I have created, for IT IS PROTECTED IN MY HOUSE. BEHOLD, I MYSELF SHALL DEFEND IT!

         + + +
         13. I HAD THE PRETTIEST DREAM! ALL ABOUT THIS BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SPIDER WEB!--There were you & I & lots of little spiders weaving it & GOD was telling us how to do it. I re member seeing the sparkle of the sunshine on the dew! It was so big!--And it went all the way from up in the trees to down on the ground & was attached to the bushes & everything! It was a big giant web! The spiders were all pretty colours!--And did you know that A SPIDER'S WEB IS STRONGER THAN STRANDS OF STEEL of the same small dimension?--GOD BLESS ALL YOU LITTLE SPIDERS who help weave it!--Your Ol' Spider!--MO.

Copyright (c) 1998 by The Family