87 - "A Sorry Jawbone" Judges 14-16

                                              

My Dear Children, We can push someone too far to disclose, discredit, dishonor their own name. The verse about giant Samson goes like this: "So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him." Judges 14:17. 

When the Spirit of God came upon Samson, his cords were loosed. Some say it is a foreshadowing of Christ in the grave, loosed by the chains of death, set free, triumph over darkness. The victory for Samson was common means---the jawbone of an animal slew a thousand. And God confounds the wicked through the foolish things of this world. "If you see a poor Christian who is enabled to overcome a temptation by weak, feeble counsel, there is the Philistine vanquished by a sorry jaw-bone." M. Henry. 

Tonight my body is engulfed in a physical battle. Four days of fever. Can't keep anything down. Bacterial infection wracks havoc on my body. May I overcome the temptations that face me, the sin that dispirits me in the midst of even this small haunting thing. We are loosed by His power not by plan or cleverness or our own might. By His Power. How many times do I ask? How did this just happen? "A sorry jaw-bone."

Her  words sound compelling, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me?" Judges 16:15. Her motives are oh-so-wrong. Money. Ambition. Motives matter.

It's the story of Samson and Delilah. Samson, more than once, falls prey to the love of a woman. He is warned over and over and over but falls into a snare. And this third time, it costs Samuel his very life. Do we do the same? Licentiousness. A license to do whatever we please. What do we want more than we want the love of Christ? 

PHOTO: A Grandmother with her 5 grandkids. May they all wrestle well to put His Word deep in their hearts.