Picture the bee.
Yes, the humble bee. To be more specific, we’re talking about the humble bumble bee.
It’s big (for a bee) and ungainly. If we look at it from an engineering standpoint, it can’t fly.
Seriously. Its body is too big, and its wings are too small.
Yet, watch a bumble bee when it finds a stand of flowers filled with sweet, juicy nectar. Its excitement, its enthusiasm for the prize it has found is apparent in every movement of its tiny body.
The bumble bee does a love dance, a flittering series of motions designed to bring it into contact with the thing it considers most important in life.
See, here’s the thing about the humble bumble bee. If it didn’t love nectar, it would never be motivated to get off its feet and into the air. There would be no reason to force its tiny wings to push its ungainly body through the air.
It would be an ugly brute making irritating buzzing noises, but it would never find what gives it life.
1 Corinthians 13:1 says our Christian experience is like that of the lowly bumble bee.
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.”
We are that bumble bee with big, ungainly problems, and tiny wings of hope to carry us along.
We can’t fly on our own. It’s impossible from an engineering standpoint. What makes flight possible for us is the love of Christ we reveal through each action we take as we struggle through the day.
It’s our Jesus love dance, the series of actions designed to bring us into contact with the most important things in life.
- Christ
- Our family
- Friends
- Treasured activities and events shared and made better by the sharing
Let’s do the Jesus love dance, and others will want to dance along.
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