This story lays the groundwork for the next one. It also makes me angry for the Lord. God told his people NO IDOLS of any kind. This family refused to listen! The first thing in our story is a son confessing to his mother that he took her money. Yeah! He finally came clean. Boo! […]
We come to the last act in Samson’s life. He will be bringing down the house. His final curtain call on his final performance. We left Samson after Delilah had found out his innermost secret; the source representing his physical strength. Something just occurred to me when I was looking for the place I wanted […]
We follow Samson into trouble. His physical desire for sexual pleasure leads him to betray his own secrets. This is NOT love and it results in Samson in knots. Samson’s sexual appetite isn’t the only thing that got him in trouble. His arrogance was just as big. Here I am judging him again. I think […]
Samson stormed off in anger at his wife’s betrayal. He returns after he calms down but it is too late. His wife has been given to someone else. He enacts his vengeance and it spirals from there. Samson’s wedding certainly didn’t go according to plan; his or anyone else’s, except maybe God’s. God let Samson […]
Samson has grown up and he wants a wife. He is adamant about the one woman he wants. “Get her for me for she is right in my eyes” (verse 3b). But her ‘eyes’ get him! We don’t see Samson and his family again until he is marriage age. We are not given an exact […]
