Tag: God Removes Things That Bind

Judges 15:14-17

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. And Samson said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey,

heaps upon heaps,

with the jawbone of a donkey

have I struck down a thousand men.”

As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.

Tag:   God Removes Things That Bind

Samson is quite a riddle.   He is a man chosen by God from birth, dedicated to God by his parents, raised in the strict order of a Nazareth, gifted with strength from God Himself, and, yet, a man full of lust and lacking integrity.   God uses him to destroy Israel’s enemies, despite his appetite for sin and for self-indulgence.  God uses Samson, despite his failings, to accomplish great things for God.   However, when Samson falls into sin and is bound by sin, he can’t accomplish anything for God.   In the story above we see that Samson, again because of his sin, is bound.   When the enemy comes upon him God works a miracle to set him free for battle.  This is a picture of what God has done for us and can do for today’s believer.  God is powerful enough to release us from whatever binds us and to give us power to defeat whatever attacks us.  God knows when we are bound and, despite our failings, is ready and willing to release us from past mindsets and from poor judgements.   God prefers we obey Him.  When we don’t and choose to reach out to Him in our times of weakness, He will deliver us and enable us to overcome our enemy, or THE enemy.