There's so much more

Psalm 19:7-11 NKJV

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward.

Dig a bit deeper - there's so much more!

Sitting in the garden on Sunday afternoon, I observed the biggest bumble bee I've ever seen. He was a colossus of the bee world with a deep buzz buzz that drove off smaller mortals!

I watched him as he probed ever deeper into each flower of the crimson Alstroemeria plant. It took him ages with each one. Afterwards he spent more time extracting the pollen from the outside, from every angle. He wasn't about to miss anything!

When I thought he had finished and flown away, suddenly he was back again, for a second round of foraging inside the flowers.

Is that why he was such a specimen of bee? Had he nourished himself so bountifully that he was now the Adonis of his kind?

Then I thought of how God's Word is like a garden full of many and varied flowers and how we are to be like that bee, taking it onboard, digging deep into its mysteries and truths.

How valuable is God's Word in my life? Do I act diligently, like that bumble bee, examining, dissecting, analysing it from every position? Or, am I apt to take just a cursory interest and then discard that Word impervious to its value?

That bee was totally focused on taking every last portion of pollen, what an example to us of tasting and mulling over the Word of God, savouring its wisdom, absorbing it into our very beings.

Then, when we think we've seen it all, to come back to it again, and revisit precious portions as the Holy Spirit reveals things to us.

There's always so much more.. we just have to dig a bit deeper.