It's the Little Foxes that Spoil Our Minds (TMF:1099)

Thursday, April 04, 2019
Peace to Live By: It's the Little Foxes that Spoil Our Minds (TMF:1099) - Daniel Litton
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       It is written in Song of Solomon, “Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom” (2:15, ESV). I’m sure most of us have heard that expression before, “It’s the little foxes that spoil the vineyard.” And it’s true that often the little things in life that are in disorder are what cause us the most grief. We should not hypothesize in our minds about various meanings behind our situations. And boy, this one is hard. When we are always trying to figure things out, to figure out a meaning behind something someone did, or behind an event that has occurred, we let the little foxes spoil our vineyard. I have found in life that when it comes to personal offenses, for instance, that most of the time when we perceive someone has done something against us to hurt us, usually it wasn’t intentional. Most of the time that we feel that someone has hurt us, they didn’t intend to hurt us. Unfortunately, though, we often spend a great deal of our thinking considering things about other people which aren’t even true. I’ve done this—we all do it—but we need to not do it.