Judges 14:10-20
Samson finds himself in a city with his fiancés towns people just following the customs of the day. Just that one thought got me inspired. Many times our entrapment comes when we are just following the customs of the day. He then taunts them with a riddle. Samson had forgotten who his enemy was. He began playing and toying with them as if they were all friends. God was trying to get him angry stir a conflict with the Philistine people and Samson was just going threw the “customs of the day”. He gives this riddle thinking he is unstoppable. The Lords victories threw samson made him cocky. He was so confident that he used the Lord’s victories for his own financial gain. The riddle was brilliant but the enemy always plays dirty. They threatened his wife with death if she did not get the riddle from Samson. Samson’s weakness was not in the cutting of his hair, It was in his lust for women. He was able to stand strong for a period of time in his own strength but the crying and weeping, begging and pleading broke him down every time. Knowing this was his weakness he still fell into a cycle with women. The not cutting of his hair kept him strong, but his lust and pride were his weakness. He did not learn from his own line of anger “If you wouldn’t have plowed with my heifer”. He blamed his enemy instead of his arrogance.
