Is There a Fly in Your Soup?

If there is one thing we know about good soup it is that it may as well be pond water after a dead fly is found floating in it. Though there may be some who would eat the soup anyway, many (I dare say) would lose their appetite. Actually, this is only one of many ways we describe something so good being ruined by one bad thing. Does not “one rotten apple in the barrel ruin the whole bunch?”

The Bible shares this sentiment with a few expressions of its own. “Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly for one respected for wisdom and honor” (Eccl. 10:1). One of the more quoted expressions found in Scripture is “a little leaven leavens the whole lump” (Gal. 5:9; cf. Mk. 8:15). Leaven is that element in dough that causes it to rise. While it can be used in reference to good and wholesome influences in one’s life (1 Cor. 5:8; cf. Lk. 13:20), Paul here used the term (in verse 6) in reference to sin. To tolerate or embrace even the smallest element of sin in one’s life will eventually bring about the ruin of one’s own soul.

That being said, friends......spiritually speaking, is there a fly in your soup?

Aaron Veyon