09- 29-10 MI DAILY DEVOTION (Judges 16: 19- 20)
SAMSON’S SSS #: 2- HE LIVED IN SUFFERING
19- ”And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20- And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.”
Samson suffered in living under the hands of his enemies and the enemies of God- the Philistines. Samson suffered in living a defeated life. The enemies made fun of him and used him for their own pleasures. And Satan can do the same to us Christians. (Judges 16: 25) “And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.” Samson also lived in blindness after the enemies took off his 2 eyes. The Philistines knew that if Samson would be blind, they can control him and they don’t have to live in fear of Samson’s getting back on them. If you would just think of how the devil operates and how they works. I wish everyone would see the big pictures on how the devil made billions of followers by blinding the spiritual eyes of the world. Samson lost control over his own life because he was blind. Billions of People all over the world lost control of their lives, of their family, of their business, of their spiritual life and you can think of millions of things that causes blindness in our lives. Money, Power, Position and Possession can cause spiritual blindness. What happened to Samson is happening to this present generation. Samson suffered and lived a defeated life because of blindness. In verse 21 is really a bad picture of a man who was once the strongest, powerful, Godly and a family man. Now check out what happened to him as he suffered in the hands of the enemies: They: “took him”, “put out his eyes”, “and brought him down…”, “bound him” and “…he grind in the prison house.”
(Judges 16: 21) “But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.”
