Little Things

by J. Miller, Ayr | Category: General | Mar 1975

Life is made up of little things; little acts that are done by a people who, like the conies, are a feeble folk; little acts of kindness which, if they were done, would often sweeten the earthly lot of many a burdened soul that is hard pushed in life. With just a little assistance the daily burden, which they feel perhaps a little too heavy, would be so far lightened. They would with a lighter heart face the battle of life gladdened, no doubt, that the law of Christ still operated in this otherwise cold world. Such a law is expressed in "Bear ye one another's burdens" (Gal. 6:2). How fruitful our lives might be if we obeyed it more! Try to fulfil this law and you will realise how much of life's sweetness and joy you missed by being occupied entirely with your own things.

Then there are acts of another kind-the sinful acts which creep into our lives, which must be guarded against:

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards;

For our vineyards are in blossom" (S. of Songs 2:1 5).

How pleasant it must be to look upon the vineyards in blossom, which give every evidence of fruitfulness. But if the little foxes, which creep in unawares, are not taken, they will spoil the vineyards, and the vines which gave such promise of an abundant harvest will fail to mature their fruit. It is the little sins which creep from their holes into our lives which do such tremendous damage. Many young children of God have been like vineyards in blossom, but they did not "abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul" (1 Pet. 2:11). They did not take and kill the little foxes when they crept into their lives, and alas! They grew to be large foxes. A child of God does not turn his back on God in a day, but little by little, if Sin is tolerated, it saps the spiritual life, and to bring fruit unto perfection is impossible. They cast their immature, unripe fruit, and gradually they shrivel up and die. Let it be noted that fleshly lusts war against the soul: "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry" (Col. 3:5). Kill those little foxes when they are little, or they may soon be grown and be too swift for you to catch.

J. Miller, Ayr | Mar 1975
General