Recently at a bible study we go to we watched a video about samson. He pointed out a few interesting points that I'd like to pass along.
Background:
Philistines had control over the Israel. They were called sea people who had immigrated from the north. They had advanced culture, science, and buildings. Israel was still in tents, and it appears that philistine culture was invading the culture of Israel.
God blesses a son and he is told to be a Nazirite. Someone who doesn't shave, doesn't drink, and doesn't touch anything dead and so on (appears very rough and backwards to me when compared with the Philistines). Samson is very strong, he steals the gates from the philistine city and carried them a long distance, kill many Philistines.
But then Samson breaks the commands of the Nazirite, is caught and held and eventual dies. You can read the full story in Judges 13-16.
It seems to me God was painting a picture. God's people then and today are like Samson. We are not the most cultured, smart, artistic ... people but we are like Samson with God's power we can and do great things.
But once we start fitting God into our life instead of giving God rule our life we fall apart.
I wonder sometimes if I am trying to be cultured, smart, ... instead of letting God rule my life. I believe if I do what God he calls me to do whether it's culture, science, art ... and so on no one can stand in the way of God as Samson shows us.
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