DAILY?READINGS: Exodus 15; Psalm 51; Acts 8:5-40
Take up the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes. Song of Solomon 2:15
Little Emma watched her mother wash grapes. Suddenly she asked if she might taste an unwashed grape “to see if it’s poisonous.” One taste might not have made Emma sick but when we consider a nibble at sin, one little taste may lead to another until it becomes habitual. It is by the attractiveness of sin we are tempted and drawn away by our lust. “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:15). —E. M. Dyck
Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin;
Each vic’try will help you some other to win;
Fight manfully onward, dark passions subdue,
Look ever to Jesus, He’ll carry you through. —Horatio R. Palmer