Spurgeon: May AM
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"Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines."
--Song of Solomon 2:15
A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may
hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do
mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the
soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ,
that He will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with
us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can
make him miserable. Jesus will not walk with His people unless
they drive out every known sin. He says, "If ye keep My
commandments, ye shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My
Father's commandments and abide in His love." Some Christians
very seldom enjoy their Saviour's presence. How is this? Surely
it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from
his father. Art thou a child of God, and yet satisfied to go on
without seeing thy Father's face? What! thou the spouse of
Christ, and yet content without His company! Surely, thou hast
fallen into a sad state, for the chaste spouse of Christ mourns
like a dove without her mate, when he has left her. Ask, then,
the question, what has driven Christ from thee? He hides His
face behind the wall of thy sins. That wall may be built up of
little pebbles, as easily as of great stones. The sea is made
of drops; the rocks are made of grains: and the sea which
divides thee from Christ may be filled with the drops of thy
little sins; and the rock which has well nigh wrecked thy
barque, may have been made by the daily working of the coral
insects of thy little sins. If thou wouldst live with Christ,
and walk with Christ, and see Christ, and have fellowship with
Christ, take heed of "the little foxes that spoil the vines, for
our vines have tender grapes." Jesus invites you to go with
Him and take them. He will surely, like Samson, take the foxes
at once and easily. Go with Him to the hunting.