DAILEY EXPRESSIONS

The more I read the story of Samson the more convinced I am that this is speaking to men and dealing with sexual sin.  Samson was strong and angry.  These seem to be the only traits accredited to Samson in the modern times.  Looking back through this biography again we see that Samson was passionate.  In 14:1-3 Samson saw the woman he wanted and was driven to get THAT woman.  He was sensitive and kept to himself.  It would be hard to keep a secret like I killed a lion with my bare hands.  He didn’t tell his parents perhaps to keep his mother from worrying about him.  It also shows that he did not let those victories define him as a man.  He was a thinker.  He came up with riddles (14:14) and analogies to get his point across (14:18).  Even though it was his downfall, He was moved by his women’s crying and begging (14:17).  In 15 1:3 he was a romancer and a lady’s man.  He brings a gift so he can sleep with his wife.  No true woman can resist a young goat (lol).  You would be hurt and angry too if you went to be with your wife and she was with another man.  He did not want the younger sister… He wanted his wife.  It is interesting that it took him feeling blameless before he would go and attack the enemy.  A lot of people feel so condemned about the junk in there life that they won’t attack the enemy.  They feel deserving of the oppression.  They feel like the enemy has the right to hold them.  So many believers are going around condemned to the place that they feel they are being punished for passed sin instead of realizing the enemy is attacking them.  We are found blameless through the blood of Christ.  When the enemy takes our wife and tries to offer us second best (trying to convince us it is better), we need to stand in authority knowing we are blameless (clear,acquit, cleanse, make clean; to free, exempt) through Christ.