Beware Of The Little Foxes

Beware of the Little Foxes

For a doctor, every detail counts. Your blood type, your blood pressure, where is the pain, what are you allergic to, what are you eating these days? For these details can be a matter of life and death.

For a machine operator, every detail counts. The temperature of the machine. The weight of the product, the shape, the size. For these details may mean pass or fail.

For a teacher, every detail counts. The answer to the problem. The process of how you worked the problem out. The tools that you use. For these details may mean you understand or you don’t.

For the christian, every detail counts. Big and small.

Who do we hang around?

Who do we follow?

Where do we spend our time?

What do we spend our money on?

What do we put in our body?

What do we allow in our spirit?

Every Detail Counts…

Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Although the foxes are small, they can do massive damage to the vineyard.

For during the blossoming season, we must protect the vines so that they may produce the fruit. And we know, during this season of life, that the devil is a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. The devil is trying to destroy the vineyard.

I. Little faults are like the little foxes so plentiful in Palestine, which destroy the fruitfulness of the vineyards.—The beautiful vineyards of Solomon’s Song point to the covenant of love between Christ and His people.

And again, these foxes are plentiful.

The little foxes which might destroy the blossoming vineyards point to the faults, both great and small, that creep into our lives and destroy that love between man and his Creator.

Some of the faults that creep in are very small at first. But with time, these faults can grow. Just like plants in our gardens, if the ground is cultivated, watered, and kept up, our plants can grow.

Likewise, if our faults are cultivated, watered, and kept up, they too can grow into dangerous, distractive, and debilitating mechanisms that breed distance and disconnection from God.

How necessary that the sweet blossoming vineyards that flourish in youthful hearts, bearing all the Divine graces in their purity, should be cleared of all predators!

Satan has plans for us. Satan is a predator and he views us as his prey. Satan has many tools at his disposal and is not fearful in using them. Depending on who you are, some tools are used more often than others so I say beware.

Luke 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

At the Last Supper, Jesus warned Simon Peter that a test of faith was coming: “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. The outspoken disciple seemed to be in the same predicament as Job when Satan sought to put him to the test. Satan wanted to “sift Peter as wheat,” which means that he wished to shake Peter’s faith so forcefully that he would fall, proving that God’s faithful servant was lacking.

Satan is looking to shake our faith as well.

A. One of Satan’s tools is worry and doubt. Notice what the bible says

Matthew 6:25-30

25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Worry can be devastating. Worrying can affect the body in ways that may surprise you. When worrying becomes excessive, it can lead to feelings of high anxiety and even cause you to be physically ill.

This text teaches us that it is not our place to worry. As a matter of fact, we were not created for that purpose. God wants us to trust Him. Take no thought for your life. Trust Him with our lives. We must not doubt. We not not waver and be tossed to and fro. This means that we should not trouble ourselves with it. We should trust God with our life. For it is not ours anyway.