March 28                                                Eccles 10 -12

LITTLE FOXES

MEMORISE: ‘Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.’ (Song 2: 15)
READ: Hebrews 12: 1-2

Everyone has certain weakness or character flaws in his or her life. If you do not deal with them early enough, they may end up dealing with you and causing you regret. Esau was a great eater. He liked food very much. He became a hunter so he could eat his choice of meat any time he was hungry. Unknown to him, Satan knew his weakness and was plotting against them.

One day Satan made Jacob, Esau’s younger brother, prepare some pottage to coincide with Esau coming home hungry. When Esau requested a plate of food, Satan pushed Jacob to ask his brother pay dearly. Jacob asked for Esau’s birthright, which he should jealously have guarded. If Esau had been in his right mind, he would have seen the devil’s plan to ruin his future for a plate of pottage. But he was so enslaved to food that the could not deny himself a meal.

Noah is another example. He and his family survived the flood. Noah was a preacher of righteousness, ye he could not stay without a little wine once in a while. Some believers have fallen into the same trap. They condemn drunkenness, but approve low-level drinking. When you start taking a little, before you know it, Satan will have pulled out his joker and wrecked your life. He did it to Noah. One day he got drunk and slept naked. Ham saw his father’s nakedness and when Noah regained consciousness, he cursed him, and that curse is still operating in the life of the descendant till this day.

Lot had two weaknesses. He was covetous and he loved wine. When his uncle Abraham asked him to choose where to go, he could have insisted that Abraham choose first, but his covetous spirit jumped at the offer and chose Sodom. He prospered there until one day he lost everything, including his wife. Are you nursing your weaknesses? Are you rationalizing them? Deal with those little foxes that destroy the vine, before they wreck your life!

ACTION POINT
Identify those little weaknesses still lingering in your life.
Ask God to help you to destroy them completely.