My wife loves honey. She’s a big honey kind of person, so when we eat at say Cracker Barrel or wherever, she’s got to have honey on that bread. I’m sure she loves honey so much because she is sooooooooo sweet.

Honey makes you smart. Winnie the Pooh loved honey. I’m a Winnie the Pooh fan, but identify more with Tigger. Nevertheless, I think Winnie was the smarter of the two, and it probably was the honey. Listen to this Pooh smartness: “When looking at your two paws, as soon as you have decided which of them is the right one, then you can be sure the other one is the left.” See, I told you honey makes you smart!

Interestingly enough, honey is mentioned many times in the Bible. Jonathan, the son of the malevolent King Saul, dipped his sword in honey and it brightened his eyes after days of hunger (see I Samuel 14). Sampson, one of the deliverers in the book of Judges, slayed a lion, and came back later to discover that bees had built a hive in the cavity of the dead carcass (see Judges 14), and Sampson was able to throw a little honey on his sopapilla at Delilah’s Mexican Restaurant. John Bunyan wrote, “Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”

Thanks to Mrs. Priscalla Dutton who teaches First Grade at Strother Elementary School, I learned via my son Kason that there is a lot of work that goes in to making one pound of honey. To produce one pound of honey, one bee has to work 160,000 hours, make 80,000 trips to and from the hive (that equals three trips around the world!). That’s a lot of hours for a little bit of honey. Wouldn’t it be nice to have those frequent flyer miles? I wonder how many of us have that kind of time commitment to reach one soul for Christ?

Bees are cool, and God made them. They didn’t just happen! I’m not big on wasps, but now I’m big on bees. I am constantly amazed at how God reveals His bigness in the little things of His creation. God enjoyed making bees so much that He made 20,000 different species of them. The Psalmist wrote, “How many are your works, O LORD! In wisdom You made them all; the earth is full of your creatures…living things both large and small” (Psalm 104:24,25b NIV).

We’ve all heard the phrase, “busy as a bee.” Perhaps that is God’s reminder that He has created us for a special purpose for a special task, and we need to be focused, attentive, and diligent in building His kingdom. Bees model for us that the Lord has created us to produce the sweet love of Christ in a world that offers a tasteless and empty vision of life. So, get your buzz on, and make a difference for Jesus this week.

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