The Cumulative Weight of Bees?

[335 words] We often fail to consider the gradual, cumulative effect of sin in our lives. Keep reading. In Saint Louis in 1984, a woman noticed a few bees buzzing around the attic of her home. Since there were only a few, she thought, she made no effort to deal with them. Over the summer, though, the bees continued to fly in and out the attic vent while the woman remained unconcerned, unaware of the growing city of bees. In a relatively short period of time, the whole attic became a hive, which became so large that her bedroom ceiling 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. Consider David’s reflection on the heaviness of sin. “O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,…