Daily Devotional
Life Vine Spoilers
Text: Song of Solomon 2:15
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.”
Message
The Bible often uses picture language to help us understand deeper lessons. In Song of Solomon 2:15, foxes were mentioned as animals to be taken out!
In Psalms 63:9 and Nehemiah 4:3, the fox symbolizes destruction, cunning, and insignificance.
Little foxes” in the Bible is a metaphor for impatience, impulsive speech, unkind words, outbursts of anger, and a critical spirit.
The little foxes in the church are irritability, impatience, impulsive speech, unkind words, outbursts of anger, and a critical spirit. These are serious sins before God
Foxes appear to be innocent but are actually crafty, clever animals. In many cultures, the fox is considered a trickster figure, often associated with shape-shifting and cunning behavior.
The fox appears in the folklore of many cultures, but especially European and East Asian, as a figure of cunning, trickery, or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers, and sometimes associated with transformation.
The little foxes harming the vineyards in our text symbolize potential dangers to a relationship.
The vineyards symbolize the love and intimacy between the bride and the bridegroom.
The little foxes represent the seemingly small but significant issues that can damage that love’s beauty and fruitfulness.
Foxes symbolize destruction in the Bible in various ways: They are compared to false prophets in Ezekiel 13:4, highlighting their deceitful nature.
“Little foxes” is used to portray sin, little sins that don’t seem much at the time but become destructive, especially in sexual matters.
Foxes are mentioned various times in the Bible, always as symbols – symbols of craftiness, destruction, desolation, and astute survival.
These “little foxes” dig holes and passages in the marriage vineyard, loosen the love and intimacy that exist in the marriage, and weaken it in the end. It is important that you are able to catch these “little foxes” that nibble the root of your love before they destroy the foundation of the marriage.
Psalms 119:11 says, ‘Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. ‘ All these scripture verses help us to understand that the war with sin can be won through The Word. Every struggle with the small foxes of sin can be overcome as we hide the Word of God in our hearts.
May God help us.