Question by butterfly: Which might be said of you: “Oh, what he/she might have been” or “he/she made the best of his/her life?
Samson: A weakness for women

Samson, the strongest man of his generation, was tragically unable to control his lust. When he saw an attractive woman, he wanted her. He first fell for a young woman, he saw in a Phillistine village just across the valley from his home. His parents tried to dissuade him, since her religion and culture were unacceptable, but he would not listen. Desire was his only rule. The marriage ended in a matter of days and resulted in dozens of deaths. Delilah was at least the third woman who was with Samson, according to Judges. She like his first love, was a Phillistine living near his home. Where thousands of men had failed to overcome Samson, a mere woman succeeded. Thanks to her, he was captured, blinded, and set to work pushing a grinding machine. His final triump was ironically fitting. Blind and bound, brought out like a display for a hooting crowd’s amusement, he destroyed himself while wreaking vengeance on the crowd.

Needed a leader: When you think of what God meant Samson to be, his life appears particularly tragic. Israel desperately needed a strong, confident leader, for the phillistines were moving in as masters, judges, only Samson was announced by an angel before he was born (13:3). He was assigned to thatt special class of people known as Nazirites whose lives were specially devoted to God. Nazrites never drank wine,went near a dead body, or cut their haor.
Samson never lived up to his promise. Rule 3 was probably the only part of the Nazrite vow he kept it required little self-discipline to let hair grow.

Despite all of Samson’ weaknesses, God used him. He is mentioned int eht bible “Hall of Fame” (Heb 11:32) as a hero of faith along with Gideon, Barak, and Jephthah, all from Judges. Barely conscious of what it meant to live for God, and given to fits of lust and tmeper, Samson still had great physical strength, which came supernaturally from God. With it, he pushed back the Phillistines more by accident than by intention-and kept Israel intact.

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God works in mysterious ways. And I’m doing the best that I can.

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Samson: A weakness for women

Samson, the strongest man of his generation, was tragically unable to control his lust. When he saw an attractive woman, he wanted her. He first fell for a young woman, he saw in a Phillistine village just across the valley from his home. His parents tried to dissuade him, since her religion and culture were unacceptable, but he would not listen. Desire was his only rule. The marriage ended in a matter of days and resulted in dozens of deaths. Delilah was at least the third woman who was with Samson, according to Judges. She like his first love, was a Phillistine living near his home. Where thousands of men had failed to overcome Samson, a mere woman succeeded. Thanks to her, he was captured, blinded, and set to work pushing a grinding machine. His final triump was ironically fitting. Blind and bound, brought out like a display for a hooting crowd’s amusement, he destroyed himself while wreaking vengeance on the crowd.

Needed a leader: When you think of what God meant Samson to be, his life appears particularly tragic. Israel desperately needed a strong, confident leader, for the phillistines were moving in as masters, judges, only Samson was announced by an angel before he was born (13:3). He was assigned to thatt special class of people known as Nazirites whose lives were specially devoted to God. Nazrites never drank wine,went near a dead body, or cut their haor.
Samson never lived up to his promise. Rule 3 was probably the only part of the Nazrite vow he kept it required little self-discipline to let hair grow.

Despite all of Samson’ weaknesses, God used him. He is mentioned int eht bible “Hall of Fame” (Heb 11:32) as a hero of faith along with Gideon, Barak, and Jephthah, all from Judges. Barely conscious of what it meant to live for God, and given to fits of lust and tmeper, Samson still had great physical strength, which came supernaturally from God. With it, he pushed back the Phillistines more by accident than by intention-and kept Israel intact.