Mom and I went shopping and when we walked out of one
store, the security beeper went off. The
saleslady came over and double checked to make sure a tag hadn’t been left on
something and she couldn’t find anything.
(Mom even volunteered to let them search her purse, lol J) The lady shrugged it off and said it happens
sometimes. We walked out and beeped
again, but this time kept going.
The next
store we went in, no beeping. The next
one, we walked in, no beeping, didn’t buy anything, and walked out and
beeping. So we stopped again. The saleslady in this store came over and was
wondering what it could be because she obviously knew we didn’t take anything…we
had only been in there for a couple minutes.
(again, Mom volunteered her purse, lol!)
We waved our shopping bags through the alarm and nothing. We waved cell phones through and
nothing. By this point we were beginning
to feel like shop-lifters. We waved mom’s
purse through and this time, lights and beeping. We looked through her purse and the lady
asked if she had anything new in there. She
did: a wallet. Inside that new wallet there was a tiny white
security tag in one of the card slots.
We took it off, threw it away, and didn’t beep for the rest of the
day.
Isn’t that
how little sins are? We’ve not done
anything big, or downright disobeyed God, but something is there causing
alarm. Since it’s not obvious, we might
have to search our hearts to find it. It
may be something little like a temper or not reading your Bible as much as He
would like us to. It might be not taking
opportunities to witness or not testifying enough. Whatever it is, we need to check
ourselves. We might not think it’s a big
deal, but I don’t want to get Heaven’s gate and have the alarm go off.
“…the little foxes, that
spoil the vines…”
Song of Solomon
2:15 KJV
