The Honey Bee Dance

Brauner Backyard, Colorado Springs, Colorado

I don't know what this plant is in my backyard, but by mid summer it is covered with flowers that attracts hundreds of bees. I also don't know where these bees come from. I have not seen a bee hive in our neighborhood (though I have seen enough yellow jacket nests).

A fact that I learned recently about honey bees is that when a female worker finds a plant with a lot of flowers she marks the spot with a scent then returns to the hive and does a dance that gives directions to the plant. WOW!

"[The Philippian jailer] took Paul and Silas upstairs into his home and gave them something to eat. He and his family were thrilled to be believers in God." Act 16:34 God's Word to the Nations

The Philippian jailer did his own "honey bee" dance.  In his joy at coming to know Christ and the forgiveness of his sins, he did a dance for his family. Everyone in his household was baptized that night. Why were they baptized? They were baptized because he pointed to Jesus.

It's not too late to dance.

Many of us have been walking with Christ since infancy or for quite sometime and we forget how to dance, yet the reality of life in Christ is as fresh today as it was for that jailer.

May we not forget to dance today that others might taste the goodness of God.

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