LITTLE FOXES are cute little fellows but they are very destructive. They are very fond of grapes and can do great damage to the bunches of ripe luscious fruit as they hang down from the branches. In eastern lands they often enclose the vineyards with a wall to keep the marauders out.
Scripture says the little foxes "spoil the vines." Like most baby animals with teeth they like to chew on the tender vines. Thus the sap cannot flow up to the branches, the fruit is spoiled or the branch may wither and die.
How often in us as Christians things of the old nature, if allowed their freedom, will spoil our Christian life — selfishness, jealousies, anger, evil thoughts, lying, stealing, things of the world, failure to read the Word and to pray — these will grieve and hinder the Spirit of God, the divine sap that flows through and nourishes the Christian life, From producing fruit for the Lord Jesus in our lives. Sometimes the is spoiled, sometimes there is all.
May we learn a lesson from the little foxes and keep the old nature in us in the place of death so that these evil things cannot get out and spoil our testimony for Christ to whom we now belong.
Messages of the Love of God 9/7/1975