I was waiting for a friend to pick me up and decided to bide my time in a quiet restaurant. There on a pane of glass was a bee trying to escape his transparent prison. He would fly up the pane until he became so tired that he fell back down, only to repeat the same effort over and over. The curious thing about it was that he was only a few inches away from an open door to his right. He just didn’t see it. Perhaps he never considered a horizontal flight path to escape. From his perspective, the world outside and freedom looked so real, yet inaccessible.
It wasn’t until after ten minutes of frantic flying and falling that the bee finally escaped. How did he do it? He was scared into it. Someone from the outside bumped the pane and he felt threatened. He didn’t know that the glass separated him from his foe. Trying to avoid his perceived predator, he broke out of his routine and took off and flew out through the door.
Have you ever felt like that bee? Like you are in a routine and you can’t escape? As though the answer you seek seems so simple yet so unattainable?
Sometimes God may allow or send situations our way which seem like big problems (and obstacles), but perhaps He is closing one door to lead us through another door that will put us on the right path.