Song of Solomon 2:15
A number of years ago the mouth of the Mississippi River became so clogged that no vessels could pass through the channel. Much anxiety was felt, for the farmers along its banks depended upon the river for the transportation of their product.
There were no great, overhanging rocks to fall into the stream and block the way of the vessels. No volcanic upheaval had changed its bed. The trouble was simply the deposit of sediment — washings from the muddy banks and bottom of the river, so fine that a filter would hardly free the water from its impurity. And yet these tiny specks, massed together, hindered the great river’s flow to the ocean; and for a time threatened the industries of the Southwestern States.
The channel of blessing is not only blocked by some great sin. Small sins will block the stream.
Human ingenuity at last found a way to keep the Mississippi channel open, but only Divine power can free our hearts from sin.