You know what Bible story comes to mind? The one with Samson and Delilah. Basically, Samson was a pretty strong man and can beat anyone who messes with him. He was given his more than normal strength by the Lord. So he was living a good life just fighting whoever messes with him. Until, of course, Delilah. That was when his world changed. He was so in love with this woman. And, I guess he thought she was really in love with him too. Remember I said earlier that the Lord was the one who gave him his strength? Well, I also want to add that the Lord told him not to say anything about how he gets his strength.
The story continues with this. The Philistines were determined to know how Samson got his strength. So, since Samson wasn’t going to tell them, they decided to go to his loved one Delilah. She was also a Philistine, but Samson didn't care. Anyway, they thought that maybe if they paid her a big sum of money she would tell them. And, they were right so Delilah started to ask Samson where he would get his strength. Three times, Delilah asked Samson how he got his strength. And, three times Samson told Delilah how. However, he did not tell her the truth. When Delilah found out each time he wasn’t telling her the truth, she was upset. She was hurt.
She did what most women do, including myself. She utilized similar sentiments, but exact context. “If you really love me, Samson, then you will tell me your secret. Don’t you love me?” Seriously wives why do we do that? Lol Anyway, so of course, Samson ended up telling Delilah his secrete. Who knows, maybe the Philistines were actually physically hurting Delilah. I just thought of something, maybe that’s why the Lord allowed Samson to tell Delilah the secret because if they were hurting her he didn’t want her to get hurt anymore. That’s just a thought, a really deep thought. Anyway, in the middle of the night, Delilah took a razor and cut all of his hair.
It’s pretty apparent after reading more into the book of Judges that the Lord was pretty upset with Samson for telling Delilah the secret of his strength. After some time, Sampson asks the Lord for forgiveness. The Lord heard Samson and Sampson‘s hair began to grow back. And that’s not the only one that came back. Sampson once again had his abnormal, in a good way, strength!
See, this man did the ultimate boo-boo. He disobeyed God, big time. And, because of the fact that he asked the Lord for forgiveness, the Lord ended up forgiving him. And, the Lord even gave him his strength back! That to me just goes to show that we can disobey God too, and if we ask him for forgiveness we will be forgiven! We definitely should not see it as a get out of jail free card. No. We should still try to abstain from sinning but I’m just saying, if we mess up, God knows our hearts and if we ask him for forgiveness he will forgive us!
Let me end my writing with the story about me and my husband Joe. So, there are times we are eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner and at the end of our meal, one of us won’t be able to finish our meal. Usually, it’s me. Joe doesn’t have a problem finishing his food most of the time. But, there are times when either one of us will put a fork of food in front of one another’s mouth, and say I can't finish this. If you really love me Joe finish this for me. I know that is so wrong. Really what we should say is if you really love me you won’t ask me to finish it for you. Of course, it's all in good fun, most of the times.
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