For weeks now when we have traveled to Fredericksburg, we have stayed at a cabin on the property. when we first purchased the property we found scorpions on the premises. The cabin is really a "hunters" cabin but it suits us just fine.
Having a fear of things that sting, I asked my husband Mark to cover a hole in the wall where the kitchen drain pipe was. I didn't want outdoor insects or things to crawl through the hole and enter the cabin. I don't like those kind of surprises.
Mark used some kind of expanding foam that was great. It expanded to the area and covered the entire hole. I felt a little better. Unfortunately, on our next visit, we had problems with our kitchen water draining. If the sink was full of water and you released it, it drained slowly and caused a backup in the restroom sink.
We dealt with it for weeks until it finally made its way to the top of our to-do list. Mark had used a coil to attempt to clear it but the coil always made it through. With this being the case, we had no reason to believe he hadn't cleared it.
His thought process was that perhaps the foam was too strong and it had bent the pipe impeding the flow of water. This time, we were going to get to the bottom of it.
He proceeded to clear out the foam with a small saw [no easy task]. An electrical wire had hardened in the foam so it was important that he not slip. He was meticulously prying away at the foam until he could finally see clearly that the pipe was in tact and not bent. His next step was to remove that section of pipe.
He cut it from the inside, then the outside and removed the section. When he pulled it out, he discovered that foam had indeed made its way to the inside of the pipe. It had blocked the entire pipe except a tiny portion which is where the coil was able to make its way through, allowing us to believe all was clear.
When he examined it carefully, he was then able to see that the pipe itself had a little hole about the size of a pea. That little hole was enough to let in an entire amount of foam through causing the blocking of the pipe. That thing described as "just a little hole" wreaked havoc on our ability to use the water in the cabin. How can a little hole allow enough in to stop progress?
That's what often happens in life. We walk along serving Christ, living a godly life and because we slip, we make little holes in our walk and that is all the enemy needs. He will take a little hole and begin to penetrate our life until little by little our walk with Christ suffers. We don't pray as often, we make excuses for not going to church, we don't read our bible....and all because we slipped and allowed the enemy in.
Perhaps that little hole is anger, bitterness, untruthfulness, or someone trying to mislead us into thinking there is a better life. We sulk in that until we allow the enemy to penetrate through and before we know it, he has completely filled our soul impeding our walk with Christ. Don't believe it!
When my husband discovered that hole, he replaced that section pipe with new and better pipe. He secured it so that no foam, insect, or debris could make its way through it again and God can do the same for you. He can take the area that enemy taunts you with and make it new. Only God can restore what has been broken, lied to, deceived, or betrayed.
Don't let a little hole destroy your world. Trust God! The truth is you belong to Him!
Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the enemy a foothold.
Ephesians 4:26-27
Let no one deceive you with empty words...Ephesians 5:6
Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7
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