June 27, 2025 … Watching for Foxes …

June 27, 2025 … Watching for Foxes   …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Natalie Grant singing… Your Great Name,  showing that Christians are protected by the great name of JESUS.  

Watching for the "little foxes" ....

Highlight Passage: … Song of Solomon 2:15  … [NLT] … 

15 Catch all the foxes, those little foxes, before they ruin the vineyard of love, for the grapevines are blossoming!           

…  Solomon poetically calls on God’s people to watch for and protect God’s vineyard against “the foxes,” who invade the lives of faithful followers of God. .  

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Song of Solomon 2:10-15  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Solomon charges the women of Jerusalem to watch out for the foxes which ruin the grapevines (i.e., the fruitfulness of God’s people)   

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 31:6  (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

…Moses, speking for God, charges God’s people to follow Joshua into the Promised Land with no fear because God would ALWAYS be with them, protecting them from their enemies.  

Reference Passage: …Psalms 46;1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…   GOD’S psalmists singing of God being the refuge and strength for His people.  

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 18:10 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon provides Godly wisdom about God being the strong tower for those who run to HIM for protection. 

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 54:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Isaiah, promises God’s people of His protection.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:28-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians that, no matter what we face in life, it will be for the good of those who believe and follow the LORD.

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 10:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to rely on the strength of our LORD when we’re tempted or under trials by God’s enemies.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Brent Hackett  … AT THIS LINK        … used an illustration from the biblical poem of The Song of Songs …  as Solomon (see Highlight passage) called God’s people to prepare and watch for foxes  (see photo) who invade God’s vineyard to dig up and destroy the fruitful vines which are planted for the LORD’s glory. .  

Do you see the biblical picture, my fellow Christian readers?   And do you feel God’s call for us, in God’s garden, who are chosen to trust Him and to let His Spirit give us His vigilance and strength, by tending His “vineyard,” which is all that He has created for His glory … and for the good of His people.  So, … personally, … I’m asking myself what I can do - on an ongoing and daily basis - to be more vigilant and to weed out those things my life - those “little foxes” - which invade and consume my desire to be fruitful for God’s Kingdom?  What about you?!! 

My Thanksgiving:… Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for calling me to help You, Lord, to tend to Your garden every day. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … as we watch for those “little foxes,” which try to invade Your garden every day..     … Amen

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