READ:
JUDGES 16:1-10
One servant
of God who received several jabs from Satan but never learnt his lesson was
Samson. He went to Gaza and slept with a prostitute and after that the
anointing still flowed. Earlier he had broken his Nazarene consecration not to
touch or eat anything that was defiled. He took honey and ate from the lion he
had killed.
The devil kept telling him with some evidence that it did not matter what he did or did not do. Whenever he needed the anointing, it would flow. And he began to believe Satan’s lie.
“Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” (Ecclesiastes 8:11)
In Judges 16:4, Samson went after another woman named Delilah. He was playing with a snake, but because he had not been bitten, he believed that it could never bite. Some people do not believe in the reality of HIV/Aids. They tell you they can never contract the disease, yet they are not faithful to their spouses. By the time they believe in it, it might be too late for them.
Delilah clearly revealed her intention as an agent of the enemy sent to destroy the anointing of God upon Samson’s life (v6). Samson thought he was up to the challenge and refused to run. Many Christians begin to backslide this way. They know what they are doing is bad, but they begin to rationalise it. Some begin to think that cigarette or a glass of beer a day is not bad. Some begin to steal little by little and feel it is all right as long as one is not caught.
These are little jabs. Satan will not stop there. He is already working towards getting such compromisers down via the hook and the knockout punch. Samson soon disclosed the true source of his power and was knocked out (vv 17-21). Yet Satan did not stop until he had Samson killed. Are you overconfident? Are you always rationalising things and saying they don’t matter? Are you toying with sin at present? Repent before your pet sin swallows you completely.
The devil kept telling him with some evidence that it did not matter what he did or did not do. Whenever he needed the anointing, it would flow. And he began to believe Satan’s lie.
“Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” (Ecclesiastes 8:11)
In Judges 16:4, Samson went after another woman named Delilah. He was playing with a snake, but because he had not been bitten, he believed that it could never bite. Some people do not believe in the reality of HIV/Aids. They tell you they can never contract the disease, yet they are not faithful to their spouses. By the time they believe in it, it might be too late for them.
Delilah clearly revealed her intention as an agent of the enemy sent to destroy the anointing of God upon Samson’s life (v6). Samson thought he was up to the challenge and refused to run. Many Christians begin to backslide this way. They know what they are doing is bad, but they begin to rationalise it. Some begin to think that cigarette or a glass of beer a day is not bad. Some begin to steal little by little and feel it is all right as long as one is not caught.
These are little jabs. Satan will not stop there. He is already working towards getting such compromisers down via the hook and the knockout punch. Samson soon disclosed the true source of his power and was knocked out (vv 17-21). Yet Satan did not stop until he had Samson killed. Are you overconfident? Are you always rationalising things and saying they don’t matter? Are you toying with sin at present? Repent before your pet sin swallows you completely.
MEMORIZE:
JEREMIAH 10:23 –O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in
man who walks to direct his own steps.
