Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Here is a fun article from an unknown author that I wanted to share.
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The Mouse that ate the church
A Lion lay sleeping and a Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his paw angrily on the tiny mouse to kill it. "Spare me!" begged the Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."
The Lion was amused to think a Mouse could ever help him. But he agreed and let the Mouse go. Days later, while stalking prey, the Lion was caught in a hunter's net. Unable to get free, he filled the forest with angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free. Aesop’s Fable.
It’s small things that destroy. The little foxes spoil the vines. Conversely, it’s small things that make things great as well. Great success comes in small steps. Many people can do great things, however, doing small things consistently well everyday is where true growth takes place. 52 weeks. 365 days.
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A mouse can fit through a hole the size of a dime. It doesn’t take much to let unclean things into your life. A doorway has been used do describe letting the enemy in our lives, yet it doesn’t take a doorway.
The teeth of a mouse never stop growing. It’s life depends on keeping them small enough to function. If a mouse stops chewing on things their teeth will continue to grow to a size that won’t allow them to function and the mouse will die. If we would quit giving the enemy things to chew on in our lives... the small things in our lives would die and not grow into uncontrollable issues.
So the mouse chews on plastic, rubber, paper, wood, anything to survive. The spiritual mouse? It chews on our complaining, critiquing, attitudes, and anything unclean in our lives. A mouse contaminates and corrupts. It nibbles. We shouldn’t nibble at the Word of God, we should consume it all. Whether we like it or not. Don’t pick and choose what you’re willing to adhere to.
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The people of God were told the mouse is unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:29: These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse....
Here is the crux of the matter. If we will take care of singular issues in our lives and not allow issues to multiply, we can and will win the battle.
Only the Philistines had a mice problem:
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land... 1 Sam 6:5
God never intended for us to have a mice problem. And preventing that means we must take care of issues that come our way. Unclean breeds with unclean.
We should keep our teeth sharp by chewing and consuming good things. O’ taste and see that the Lord is good.
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How to keep mice out of your life.
1) Shut the door and make sure there aren’t any holes in it. Shore up the walls. Repair any breaches.
2) If you make a mess clean it up. A mouse is drawn to the unclean. If you make a mistake, repent. To continue going down the wrong road will only invite the unclean into your life. Don’t sit around in a mess you made. Clean it up and go on.
3) Clean up the crumbs. Don’t leave any amount of food out. It will attract a mouse. Before you know it, you will have mice. And they multiply fast.
We attract the unclean into our lives when we leave the Word of God unconsumed on the pews. Empower yourself by taking heed to the Word of God.
Jesus said gather up the fragments that remain that nothing should be lost. Uneaten word of God can be served again and again.
When the preacher preaches consume it all.
Everyone has probably encountered a mouse in their lives literally and spiritually. It’s what we do after that, that determines if we will have a mice problem.
Don’t allow the mouse to loose the Lion!
William James Roop
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