My heart must be a single minded devotion to the things of God. I must be governed by My Lord Jesus’ will and desires and He will engraft those desires into my heart when I communicate with Him through prayer and reading of His Word.
Judges 16 This entire Chapter always speaks rebuke to me because I find myself identifying with his weakness for women and making foolish choices by allowing the lust of the flesh to supersede the Word of God. How foolish was Samson to let his lust for sexual pleasure destroy what God had done for him and through him. In my opinion, he cared for Delilah but he was more consumed with lust for her. Delilah used him for monetary gain as many women use sex to control men. I have been where he was and can testify to how debilitated you feel after allowing these weeds that remain in our corrupt nature to sprout and grow into outward sin by not pulling them or cutting them off at the root with the Word of God.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (KJV) Three times she asked him to reveal the secret to his strength and each time she did what he told her and the Philistines were upon him. I could understand the first slip, but after the second he should have consulted the Lord and then the Lord would have revealed to him her evil intentions, but his pride and lust outweighed his need to acknowledge his weakness to the Lord and ask for help. This is why God the Holy Spirit over and over in the New Testament through Paul and others tell us to not to be filled with pride and try to stand and fight the devil in the area of sexual lust, but on the contrary He tells us to flee (to run away from this temptation) as Joseph so smartly headed. Genesis 39:12 His master's wife grabbed his coat and said to him, "Come to bed with me." But Joseph ran out of the house so fast that he left his coat in her hand. (ERV) This is what Samson should have done here and I can say I should have done likewise on occasions.
Judges 16:7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. (KJV)When I fail to daily devour Your Word Dear Lord Jesus, I become very spiritually weak and vulnerable to sexual lust and sexual sin with women. This is what happened to Samson here, he forgot the source of his strength was from the Lord and not his hair.
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. (KJV)Verse 1 says Samson saw the woman and went to sleep with her. The source or root cause of his sin was the very thing the devil afflicted when he was captured. Confirming again the Word of God in whatever we sow we will reap a harvest good or bad. We must guard what our eyes look upon. Mat 6:22-23 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! (KJV)
Your conduct will be regular and steady. All that is needful to direct the body is that the eye be fixed right. No other light is required. So all that is needful to direct the soul and the conduct is, that the eye of faith be fixed on heaven; that the affections be there. By Albert BarnesAnd what the eye is to the body, the intention is to the soul. We may observe with what exact propriety our Lord places purity of intention between worldly desires and worldly cares, either of which directly tend to destroy. If thine eye be single - Singly fixed on God and heaven, thy whole soul will be full of holiness and happiness. John Wesley
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