Little Things

Little Things "So, if you think are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! No temptation has seized you except what is common to man." 1 Corinthians 10:12 Have you ever stayed home from church to mow your yard before it rained, or gotten so excited about that new novel that you just bought, that you haven't taken time to read your Bible this past week? But do you know that this is none other than Satan that is tempting us, as this is just some of his schemes to get our mind off God. The devil seeks to compromise Christians through a steady diet of small, seemingly insignificant temptations. Many Christians pride themselves with the fact that we don't do this, or we don't do that, the so called big sins. But when we begin to let the little things keep us from our relationship with God we are lowering our guard and compromising. Little things can be the start to bigger things. There was a massive Redwood tree in California that had stood tall for 400 years, surviving countless earthquakes, storms, floods, and other violent natural disasters. But one day, without warning, this massive tree came crashing to the ground with a tremendous thud. No one knew why. A lumberjack didn't bring it down. A bolt of lightning didn't cause it to fall. After close investigation, the answer was revealed as to why the ancient tree had died. Tiny beetles had worked their way into the trunk and ate away at its life-giving fibers, weakening the tree's mighty bulk from the inside out. What powerful lightning could not do, little insects did. It is like the song that Simon and Garfunkel sung years ago: "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping". Little things turn into big things. So don't lower your guard and fall for this trap. When compromise gets into your life, you will start going downhill. Robert W. Brock My Daily Devotional Volume Seven December 7