Judges 16:1-20
20. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.
Hopefully you know the story of Samson. He was a judge in the days of Israel. He was, physically, the strongest man that ever lived. However, his super strength came from the Holy Spirit. Without the anointing, Samson was a mere man. He was many times during his life distracted by women. And although he defeated 1,000 Philistines with the jaw bone of a donkey, carried the gates of a city uphill, caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail, and defeated a young male lion, it was the distraction to his affections that made him as vulnerable as a city without walls (Prov. 25:28). His distraction made him lose focus of what was most important: the Will of God for his life. We can easily blame Delilah for the fall of our brother, for we often look for a scapegoat, but the truth is that she was merely a vessel used to cause him to walk in the weakness of all men, the flesh!
As it was with Samson in the physical by the grace of God, the Holy Spirit will spiritually empower us to overcome our enemies through the same grace. He will enable us to defeat our attraction to satan’s distractions. Fear, worry, struggle, the hustle and bustle, etc… are simply used to throw us off course. The enemy’s plan is deliberate and intentional: “Don’t allow them to meditate on the goodness of God’s great grace at all!” Let us be wise people of God. We are not ignorant of satan’s devices (II Cor. 2:11)! Like Samson’s natural eyes being distracted by Delilah, and then extracted by the Philistines, we must be careful not to lose sight of obeying God’s Word in all that we do. It is a terrible thing to feel that God has left us when we need Him. Are our affections on things above (Col. 3:2)?
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