Bee Careful and Don't Believe Everything You See

Robert is our 5 year. He's an amazing kid and he's also the youngest of his 7 brothers and sisters. It's never boring with him around and the entertainment factor goes up about 100% whenever he enters the room. The other day he came into the house with a live bumble bee on the front of his shirt and he was telling everybody, "look at my pet bumble bee-look at my pet bumble bee!" Now for whatever reason we didn't say anything to him. We just let him carry it around. It's like we were in one of those parental-comatose-daydream things where we're conscious but not really paying attention. It's like hey... no one is bleeding and they're not fighting so it's all good. Have you ever done that? Really? You've never done that? OK, I guess it's just us. Anyway, he walked around the house for a little while then he went back outside. About 2 hours went by and Robert came back in screaming at the top of his lungs, "that bee's not nice... that bee's not nice!" MJ asked him, "what? Did you think he was friendly like the bumble bees on TV?" He said through a flood of tears, "yes."

You see for some reason he thought that all bumble bees were like the smiley cartoon bumble bees on Nickelodeon. He thought that they were all "nice" because those are the only ones he had ever seen (the ones on TV). So, after MJ explained that bumble bees didn't act like the cartoon ones on TV, and the shock of this new revelation wore off, Robert headed back outside to play.

That story is so funny to me. He was soooo convinced that all bumble bees were nice. That's what he believed. He played with his new friend (the bumble bee) for almost 3 hours because "that's what he believed." He didn't even notice the big huge stinger. Then BAM! The truth became a reality. He got stung.

But here's where it gets me thinking about how this relates to me. I see things in life and I'm tempted to believe what natural circumstances look like rather than what God's Word says. It doesn't matter if it's finances, relationships, kid issues, you name it... the world is saying one thing and God's Word is diametrically opposed to it and saying pretty much the opposite. We may believe something to be true but one day, "BAM!" When Jesus comes back we're all going to see the truth and it's going to be what is in God's Word... not what the world is telling me. I Cor. 13:12 says, "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."

So rather than going through life believing something that's just as false as "all bumble bees are nice" I choose to believe God's Word concerning money, relationships, child rearing, attitudes, ambitions... you name it. Hopefully you do too because if we don't one day it'll sting knowing we wasted opportunities with God because we chose to believe a lie.

Love Ya,

Jim