Had a great time this morning preparing for my message this Sunday. We're getting into chapter 2 of Song of Songs, where the poet compares the marriage relationship to a vineyard. Like a vineyard, a marriage also takes care, cultivation, pruning, watering, investing, and careful attention to detail if it's going to blossom. So the Song gives this advice:
Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards.
These little foxes would sneak their way into the vineyard undetected where they'd gnaw on roots, eat fruit, and create destruction.
So here's my question as I prepare for Sunday.
What foxes have you had to catch while cultivating your marriage?
Leave me a comment and I may even quote you on Sunday!
Can't help you with any examples for your sermon. Just wanted to put in a good word for foxes. While they may be pests to farmers (especially chicken farmers), as a past owner of two hand-raised foxes (one red, one arctic), I have to say they are very loving and social animals. I miss mine.
Posted by: Brian | April 22, 2009 at 05:43 PM