The Unique Water Spider

Shalom and happy Sabbath! 

We often find spiders in the land, but have you ever seen a water spider? It turns out that there are water spiders that many do not know yet. And what is unique about it? The All-New Book of Amazing Facts Volume 1 page 11 gives its explanation.

“In Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa, a curious little spider makes its home under water. This water spider spins a tiny web in the shape of a bell and attaches it to the stems of water weeds and plants just below the surface of a freshwater pond. Since all spiders need to breathe air, the water spider takes its air along with it—like a scuba diver. On the surface, it traps tiny bubbles in the hairs of its body, then hurries home and brushes them off, releasing them under its web. The spider makes regular trips to bring back air bubbles for its underwater next. The waterproof web becomes inflated with trapped air and makes a perfect place to live, eat,and lay eggs. When the fresh air is used up, the spider returns to the surface to breathe and collect more fresh air bubbles for its home below. Living below, yet breathing the air from above, this little spider is constantly surrounded by water but remains perfectly dry!”

Like water spiders which need fresh air to breathe, so do our lives we are all living right now. Although we live in the world, we need to pray because “prayer is the breath of the soul” (Gospel Workers 254.4)

What if we do not breathe? We will die. So it is with prayer; if we do not pray, we will die spiritually. Thus, “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17), because Jesus Himself also said to us “… that men ought always to pray, and not to faint …” (Luke 18:1), and Paul the apostle also said, “Continue in prayer …” (Colossians 4:2).

A question for us, “Have we realized the importance of prayer for our lives? Have we persevered in prayer? Or do I tarry in praying?” Answer it individually in our own hearts.

May this devotion on this Sabbath day be a reminder for us to pray unceasingly and not faint. 

Happy Sabbath and God bless all of us. Amen.