The Webs He Weaves

“Oh, the tangled webs we weave,” wrote Sir Walter Scott. The saying has passed into common use because of its striking truth. Our lies and wrongdoings tend to get us into even more trouble in the future. Every believer has learned this through painful experience.

But all the while our God is weaving his wondrous webs of providence to save us. He is always netting together his secret provisions and using the evil intensions of others (and even sometimes our own failings—plot twist!) to prepare webs to catch us when all hope is lost. Life yeets us to our doom but we find that it’s nothing but net.