TEXT:DANIEL 2:34
''Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.''
A careful study of Holy Bible, doubtlessly discovers to its students this fact: that negligible things or events have been the instrument of the undoing of many great characters in scripture; witness Adam, whose fall was occasioned by just a bite of an apple, thereby dragging his posterity into a state of misery and tears. Goliath, that mighty man of war from his youth, was killed just with a stone from a shepherd boy's sling; David plunged his entire family into a civil war by just a taste of another man's matrimonial well. Little foxes spoil vineyard; a hole under the keel of a ship can sink it; a drop of wormwood in a drum of honey, can turn it into bitter substance; a small hole on a wall can let in serpent or scorpion. Unfaithfulness in little things can deem a man unfaithful in big matters. Nebuchadnezzar's massive image came crashing down and shredded into powder by just a stone cut out without hand: a little slip here and there, could put a man's destiny to sleep for ever. Friends, as ever as you desire to stay steady in grace and relevance, mind every detail about the issue of your soul. Stay awake, and give no ground to any tongue to wag at you. No great man has ever fallen by great hand. The God man was held to the wood by three nails: see how that hand that uphold all things was fastened to a wood by two nails; this would teach us that little things are more to be feared than great things. The whole political structure of the Philistine stood just on two pillars, which when pushed down, that Nation was greatly affected. Brothers, no sin is too small to occasion a mortal fall. Beloved, look into your heart, is there space for little compromised? this is the earnest of bigger ones. One sin allowed, open doors for others; as a robber who gains entry into a house opens door to others. If a snake could squeeze its head in through a little crack on the wall, the rest of its body would slip in effortlessly.