Catch… the little foxes that ruin the vineyards. Song of Songs 2:15 NIV
On Colorado’s Long Peak, lies the remains of a giant 400-year-old tree. Age, storms and avalanches couldn’t bring it down. What did? A tiny beetle you could crush under your foot. It ate right through the bark and devoured its heart.
Be careful, it’s the little foxes that ruin the vineyards. Little attitudes; but if you practice them often enough, they become fixed attitudes. Little indulgences; but if you give place to them long enough, they desensitise you to sin. Remember when certain things bothered you? Now you don’t give them a second thought. You’re being desensitised!
Alcoholic start by telling themselves, “I can handle it.” Every victim of Internet pornography (and they’re getting younger every day), started with a look, got hooked on a fantasy and ended up uncaging a tiger that: (a) can devour them; (b) will never willingly go back into its cage.
Before a moral problem got out of hand in the Corinthian church, Paul hit it head on. “I also received a report… One of your men is sleeping with his step-mother. And you’re so above it all that it doesn’t even faze you… You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a ‘small thing,’ but it works its way through a whole batch… get rid of this ‘yeast’” (1 Corinthians 5:1-7 TM). Strong language!
Why does God make such a big deal out of this anyway? Because sin hurts us and anything that hurts one of His children, makes Him angry.
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