Key Text: Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

The heart of the believer is tender and needs to be constantly watched over to avoid corruption and defilement. When God justifies a man, and makes him righteous at salvation, He also gives him the charge to keep himself pure. Failing in the responsibility to take away the things that have the capacity to defile a man will eventually result in eternal damnation. The believer is therefore expected to eschew evil and to abstain from all appearance of it, always.

As you walk and work among men there are little things that attach themselves to you which must be taken away to remain righteous. A little lie, a little anger, a little gossip, a little pride, a little hypocrisy, a little lust, a little inappropriate or immoral behaviour can lead to backsliding and drown your soul in perdition, if not dealt with. Be careful, a little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Little foxes have the capacity to spoil your tender heart if left unchecked. They must be taken away and that by you. To keep pure, you must submit yourself to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. Give no place to little foxes in your life. Every tree that your heavenly Father has not planted in your life is a little fox, and must be uprooted - Matthew 15:13.

Prayer: O Lord, strengthen and empower me to take away the little foxes attacking my spiritual life, in Jesus name. Amen.

Reflection: Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen - 1 John 5:21.