SDfAoWOP: Samson

Two kids were up most of the night being unpleasantly unwell. And I, stupidly, lay awake the rest of the hours waiting for others to succumb. But it didn't happen. So basicslly I wasted the small amount of sleep I could have had anticipating bad things that didn't happen. Grateful, of course, that they didn't happen. Irritated with myself. Tired. Hoping we get some useful things done today. Moodily unhappy that God prefers our weakness so that we never get any credit for amazing deeds. Forgot to post this yesterday, so here it is today.

Day Fifteen

Judges 14:28

Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

It's a pity that vengeance is so out of fashion in the modern world. Not that we were ever supposed to avenge ourselves. It was always God's job. But back in the good old bible days at least we were allowed to pray for it, as Samson does here. And he is so far from being pure as the wind driven snow. So so far. Nearly everything he did was wrong. And his attitude was terrible. And his parents didn't properly govern him. What a horrendous mess of a family and a person. I always turn to Samson when I want to feel better about my own life choices. I haven't committed adultery or disobeyed The Lord with such showy tragic consequences.

But God used him. God had plans and accomplished them through the bad terrible freaky choices of Sampson, the bawdy tawdry choices of Sampson. Is it so difficult to consider that God is involved in the out working of your life? That your choices, good and bad, are not beyond the boundary of his will. Even your death, your sin, your longing for justice is accounted for. Don't be surprised when the Lord inserts himself into the picture from time to time as you stretch and strain against the pillars of your life, dysfunctioning yourself to death but being saved unto life.