In that same year, over a million homes were partially or completely destroyed by termites, but these did not make the news. The dramatic events get attention but the mundane is much more insidious. Let a plane crash anywhere and it will make news, but each year 400,000 people die from cigarettes and no one notices. If a toy is unsafe and chokes a baby, it will be pulled off the shelf, but each year 55,000 Americans will die in car accidents while we continue to drive. The big things get attention, but it is the little things that make up life.
Life is lived with the ordinary and with little things.
The test of a person is then found if he can be faithful in the little things. God gives the ordinary and the common things to prove us. The manna was God s examination, well-planned and administered on a daily basis to see if they could be obedient to persevere and to be grateful. It is the daily things of prayer, fasting, reading the Word, worship, giving and forgiving that build the foundation of a Christian life. Consequently, it is the little foxes that destroy the vines where in is found the tender grapes.