The Little Foxes

"Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom." Song 2:15

Last Sunday I talked about the essence of holiness being loving and serving God with an undivided heart.

Michael Brown in Go and Sin No More says: ". . . anything that divides your heart - even if it is 'neutral' in and of itself - is sin. The same can be said for anything that dulls or distracts your heart."

I think of how many of us 'veteran churhers' proudly avoid being entangled in 'BIG sin' while the little foxes destroy the potential for fruit in our lives. The pleasures of this world and chat rooms and tv chairs and pursuit of our next tech gadget or vacation, rob our time and slowly erode our first love for Christ.

The Enemy is a fool but he's no idiot. If he can just entice us with busyness and fashion and sports and success then we slowly begin to fill our soul with those things. It's like the proverbial slow boiling of the frog in the kettle.

As I said on Sunday, Fruit Happens, as we allow the Holy Spirit to fill our lives.

We cannot make holiness happen. But we can choose to go on a fox hunt. We can choose to seek to fill our lives with the living God and not dead idols.

What is God saying to you?