Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Tuesday May 30, 2017 |
Morning Time: 7:31 AM PST
"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.
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