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A Single Blade of Grass
A Single Blade of Grass
Florida College performed weekly “room checks” in the dorms. If there was a mess, it was a 5 dollar fine; a fortune at Taco Bell! I noticed every mess started with a single blade of grass on the floor. The secret to a clean room was to never ignore that blade. Tending to the small things kept the big things from ever becoming a problem.
“It came about when the sons of Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely” (Joshua 17:13). To the Israelites, the Canaanites were just a blade of grass and they ignored it. Yet God warned them, “they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land…” (23:13). God knows when we keep the “small” sins around, they create huge problems. Instead, He urges us to “drive them out and destroy them quickly…” (Deut. 9:3). All sin is a disaster waiting to happen, so let’s get rid of it now before it comes back to bite us for our eternal room check! It could cost us our soul!
