Beware of the “Bees”

“…because thy sins were increased… thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.” —Jer. 30:14-15

We often fail to consider the gradual, cumulative effect of sin in our lives. In 1984, an unemployed cleaning woman in St. Louis noticed a few bees buzzing around the attic of her home. Since there were only a few, she made no effort to deal with them. Over the summer the bees continued to fly in and out the attic vent while the woman remained unconcerned, unaware of the growing city of bees.

The whole attic became a hive, and the ceiling of the second-floor bedroom finally caved in under the weight of hundreds of pounds of honey and thousands of angry bees. While the woman escaped serious injury, she was unable to repair the damage of her accumulated neglect.

Beware of adding sin to sin (Isa. 30:1).