The Promise of A Champion

Judges 13:5  

"For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: 

for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: 

and he shall begin to deliver Israel out 

of the hand of the Philistines." 

  
    Samson was Danite, living adjacent to the Philistines, He was selected before birth as the one who would begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines. God gave Samson superhuman strength to achieve this, but Samson's whole life was filled with compromise in his repeated refusal to control his sensual desires and whims. 
    The secret of Samson’s strength was a puzzle to his contemporaries. Even Delilah could not account for it, (Judg.16:5-6).  Clearly, then, it did not depend on his great height, nor his brawny chest and arms, nor his muscular development or his long hair. The instructions that the lord gave to his parents about not shaving his head was a covenant, a vow that was broken when Samson told Delilah his heart, (Judg. 16:17).  It was due, to his faith, which opened his nature to the Spirit of God. "And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done," (Judg. 14:6). "And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house," (Judg. 14:19). "And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands," (Judg. 15:14)."
    However, I believe his physical blinding by the Philistines (Judg. 16:21) seemingly brought about the opening of his his spiritual eyes, because he gave his life for his people. But faith is always in direct proportion to consecration. The soul cannot give itself in two directions nor serve two masters; and if it draws its energy from the eternal God, there must be strict discipline exercised on the pathways of sense.
    We all have to encounter lions. Happy we'll be if we sever them in the power of the Holy Spirit! And have we not often discovered that the very sorrow, trial, or temptation which we dreaded most and which threatened to destroy us, has yielded the strength and sweetness, the meat and honey, which have enriched time after time? Samson shared these with his mother and father. Let us never keep to ourselves those glorious lessons and results which we may have won in conflicts and sorrows that only the eye of God has witnessed. Let others share their benefit. 
Amen!

Reading: (Judg. Chap. 13-16) 
Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry