The  Bees Who Took Shortcuts

An English scientist made a survey of the effort required by a bee to gather and make honey. One pound of honey contains 7,000 grains of sugar, which represents the concentrated sweetness of 62,000 clover blossoms, each of which is made up of 60 florets. To obtain one pound of honey, a bee must make 2,700,000 trips to and from the flowers, covering a distance of 5,000,000 miles.

A hive of bees once tried to take a shortcut in honey making. They gave up flowers as the source of their raw material and transferred their patronage to some discarded syrup barrels at a soft-drink plant. They found an abundant supply, and shifted their loyalty and effort in short-cutting the process. It was, for the bees, more convenient and saved a lot of time and effort for them.

Their only problem was that the new bees did not know about flowers, the honey from the syrup was a very poor quality and the bee colony soon completely died out.

Matthew 7:13-14

Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

In none of these scriptures does the Lord indicate that there are appropriate short-cuts to return to His presence.

Courtesy President Meng and Brother Greene, Logan Utah