It’s pretty nice weather right now so I opened the office windows to enjoy a cool breeze. Unfortunately, with the nice breeze also comes nature, and like many modern people, I only want to interact with nature on my schedule. I was in the woods because I chose to go on a hike. I saw wildlife because I went out looking for it. I got a face full of pollen because I stopped to smell the roses.

The nature that was thrust upon me today was a bee! She just came in buzzing around and got stuck on the window screen. I don’t like bugs, they give me the creeps, and even though I am literally more than a million times bigger, (I did the math) I would prefer flight over fight in most insect interactions. But little homey was stuck and needed help finding the way out. So, I got a cup and a piece of paper and, only making the manliest of sounds, I threw her out the window.

Bugs get stuck in windows and light fixtures because in their little bug brains, the only thought is to go towards a light because bright light should mean the sun and freedom. Sadly, many of these lights are false leads.

The same thing happens to us. We get stuck and start reaching for anything that looks like it might solve the problem. This is at the root of our own personal idols. Anything we look to as salvation from our problems, that is not God, is another problem.

1 John 1:5-7 tells us this, “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”

We all have times when it feels as though we are walking in the darkness. We also have the benefit of being smarter than bugs. Use your innate discernment to choose walking towards the true light of God. We do know the difference between the true light and a false idol.

Fly free.