A little thorn can cause terrible suffering. A little cloud can hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines—and little sins do mischief to the tender heart.

These little sins burrow into the soul. They fill it with everything that is hateful to Christ, until he will hold no comfortable fellowship with us. Listen carefully: a great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.

Jesus will not walk with his people unless they drive out every known sin. He says, "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love."

Some Christians very seldom enjoy their Savior's presence. How is this? Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. Are you a child of God, yet satisfied to go on without seeing your Father's face? What! You the spouse of Christ, yet content without his company! Surely, you have fallen into a sad state—for the chaste spouse of Christ mourns like a dove without her mate when he has left her.

Ask, then, the question: what has driven Christ from you? He hides his face behind the wall of your sins. That wall may be built up of little pebbles as easily as of great stones. The sea is made of drops; the rocks are made of grains. The sea which divides you from Christ may be filled with the drops of your little sins. The rock which has nearly wrecked your ship may have been made by the daily working of the coral insects of your little sins.

If you would live with Christ, and walk with Christ, and see Christ, and have fellowship with Christ, take heed of "the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes."

Jesus invites you to go with him and take them. He will surely, like Samson, take the foxes at once and easily. Go with him to the hunting!