Song of Solomon 2:15 

 

On Colorado’s Long Peak lie the remains of a giant 400-year-old tree. Age, storms, and avalanches couldn’t bring it down. What did? A tiny beetle you could crush under your foot. It ate right through the bark and devoured its heart. Be careful: it’s the little foxes that ruin the vineyards. Little attitudes; but if you practice them often enough, they become fixed attitudes. Little indulgences; but if you give place to them long enough, they desensitize you to sin. Remember when certain things bothered you? Now you don’t give them a second thought. You’re being desensitized! Every alcoholic started by telling himself, 'I can handle it.' Every victim of Internet pornography (and they’re getting younger every day) started with a look, got hooked on a fantasy, and ended up uncaging a tiger that: (a) can devour them (b) will never willingly go back into its cage. Before a moral problem got out of hand in the Corinthian church, Paul hit it head on. Listen: 'I also received a report; one of your men is sleeping with his stepmother. And you’re so above it all that it doesn’t even worry you, you pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a ‘small thing,’ but it works its way through a whole batch, get rid of this ‘yeast'. (1 Cor 5:1-7). Strong language! Why does God make such a big deal out of this anyway? Because sin hurts us, and anything that hurts one of His children, makes Him angry.