Glass Hives

When I was child my parents took me to the Tennessee Valley Fair to ride the rides and see the exhibits. One of the most interesting displays was the honeybees in glass hives. There appeared to be thousands of bees, all of them hustling and bustling in frantic activity beneath the pane of glass that covered their colony. The beekeeper showed us the queen and explained about the workers, the guards, and the drones, every one of them oblivious to the fact that their every move was being observed by a higher intelligence.

In the same way, our heads are like glass hives and God sees every hustling, bustling thought buzzing through our brains. None are hidden from him.

Scripture references: • 1 Chronicles 28:9—The Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intents of the thoughts. • Psalm 7:9—The righteous God tests the hearts and minds. • Psalm 94:11—The Lord knows the thoughts of man. • Psalm 139:1—O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; you understand my thought afar off. • Jeremiah 11:20—O Lord of hosts, you who judge righteously, testing the mind and the heart. • Jeremiah 12:3—But You, O Lord, know me; you have seen me, and you have tested my heart toward you. • Jeremiah 17:9—The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind. • Jeremiah 20:12—O Lord of hosts, you who test the righteous and see the mind and heart. • Ezekiel 11:5—Thus says the Lord: I know the things that come into your mind. • Revelation 2:23—I am He who searches the minds and hearts. • Hebrews 4:12-13—For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. • Matthew 12:25