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| What a plot-line! |
Samson seems caught up in an unbelievable soap opera script
that lurches from one crisis to another. A special, unexpected gift from God to
his parents, filled with the Spirit’s power to kill a thousand Philistines, water
is miraculously provided for him when he is thirsty and then he brings the
house down and he kills, ‘many more when
he died than while he lived.’ (Judges 16:30). It’s confusing.
He messed up too many times for my liking, he always wanted
to be in control, yet God didn’t give up on him. Is that okay? Is that how it
works? Is that fair? As Carl reminds us, many people who have clearly been used
by God have messed up, there seems to be incredible fruit from their lives,
even when in secret all is far from God’s best. But like Samson, eventually the
end comes and it is not going to be pretty.
There’s still time to stop doing what displeases God, still
time to turn away from what is wrong and step away from the edge, still time to
remember what you have promised God and still time to keep those promises. ‘God always finishes what He starts. It’s never
too late for a fresh direction.’
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