Samson is a character in the Word which really made me to think so deep about the Love of Our Father in Heaven .
This Studies is a thought which God gave me to think about my Holy call and where I am standing in my life.
This is a 4 part series. I am sure this series of studies will help you too.
May Lord almighty be with you and Bless you.
In Him
Br. Vinod Ignatious
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Samson with his weakness - Part IV
Samson’s Repentance
Judges 16:28-30
“28 Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "O Sovereign LORD, remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes." 29 Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, 30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.”
The Humiliating consequences of Samson’s sin must certainly have causes him to do some serious thinking and had moved him to repentance. The very fact that he prayed to the Lord gives some evidence of spirituality. This is the only recorded prayer of Samson that we have in Scripture. The pray was a sincere request to God to allow Samson to do the only thing that he now could do in his state of blindness. How many he killed is not specified, expected that the number was more than he had previously killed during his life time.
Samson’s Spiritual failures are not to sympathies by the text; rather, they are the means of his downfall. He is a tragic picture of a man of God fully equipped to serve the Lord, but whose service is rendered ineffective by his passion and lust. But still Lord heard his prayer when he repented.
It is written in His Word Hosea 14:1- 9
Repentance to Bring Blessing
1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God.
Your sins have been your downfall!
2 Take words with you
and return to the LORD.
Say to him:
"Forgive all our sins
and receive us graciously,
that we may offer the fruit of our lips. [a]
3 Assyria cannot save us;
we will not mount war-horses.
We will never again say 'Our gods'
to what our own hands have made,
for in you the fatherless find compassion."
4 "I will heal their waywardness
and love them freely,
for my anger has turned away from them.
5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like a lily.
Like a cedar of Lebanon
he will send down his roots;
6 his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,
his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
7 Men will dwell again in his shade.
He will flourish like the grain.
He will blossom like a vine,
and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.
8 O Ephraim, what more have I [b] to do with idols?
I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a green pine tree;
your fruitfulness comes from me."
9 Who is wise? He will realize these things.
Who is discerning? He will understand them.
The ways of the LORD are right;
the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.
End Part 4
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