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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Samson, Part Five — Foxes and Torches Bible Verse:Judges 15:1-8 (ESV) "After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in. And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.” And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.” So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire. And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.” And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. " Message:
The account of Samson’s goading the Philistines is as colorful as it is dramatic. After the tumultuous and bloody wedding, he returns to the Philistine village and tries to sleep with his wife, only to discover that his father-in-law has married her to another man.
The father-in-law is, of course, acting reasonably. Samson had reason to hate her for her betrayal, and he certainly appeared to abandon her. The man tries to make it right by offering Samson her prettier sister instead.
But Samson hasn’t done all this to get a pretty wife. He is looking for an excuse to attack the Philistines. And with his now customary flair, he gets his revenge in a colorful and unexpected way: he ties pairs of foxes together by their tails and puts a lighted torch between them, then sets them loose in the Philistines’ fields.
He has now started something which cannot help but escalate. The Philistines, outraged at the burning of their crops, take their revenge on him by killing his wife and her father. This gives Samson the excuse he is looking for. He attacks the Philistines head-on, slaughtering them with his prodigious strength. Then he travels to a cave and hides out.
Meditation : Prayer : Almighty God, who does freely pardon all who repent and turn to Him, now fulfill in my contrite heart the promise of redeeming grace; forgiving all my sins, and cleansing me from an evil conscience; through the perfect sacrifice of Christ Jesus our Lord. And turn my heart to your will at every moment, I pray......Amen |
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