Samson A Bio

         

We are as the Good Word says “flawed” and we strive for perfection.  We cannot help it, because we see perfection around us everywhere and are intimidated.  Now while we see perfection in others, others see it in us for in each of us bear the perfect stamp of the Masters perfection in some limited way.

Samson was possible the best example of a perfect human being after Jesus.  He of the long hair lived as close as any to Father’s plan for much of his life and then along came the philistine enchantress and in no time at all he was undone.  Samson was a strong man of Israel whose strength was in his hair: well his strength was in following his Master’s will.

He had been given superhuman strength for a purpose which was to defend the people of God.  Israel in Samson’s time had powerful national enemies, just as now, and it was up to Samson to defend the nation against these enemies. 

The Philistine nation who set out to subjugate the people of Israel, knew of Samson and he was a passive defence against them but when it came to war they knew that Samson would have to be neutralized.  Well try as they might they could not neutralize him.  Until they came upon a plan in a woman called Delilah.  She was to seduce Samson and thus obtain the secret of his strength.

Delilah succeeded in becoming the woman in Samson’s life and for a while there was a running banter that went on about how he was so strong.  But Samson had been well instructed about who was to know the secret of his hair and withstood Delilah’s prying.  One day though he let the truth out and Delilah cut of his locks.

Immediately that Samson’s hair was cut his strength became that of an ordinary man and when the enemy saw him they could ambush him and take him into their own camp, well more than a camp.  They blinded this once mighty man of God and then they made a plaything of him.

Of course, in the nature of mankind, time passed and at a major celebration of the Philistine people they called for Samson to be brought out and to be chained between two posts in a reception hall that the people could mock him as they partied.  What they forgot was that Samson’s hair was growing back.

At one point in the celebration Samson had enough of the mocking and he grabbed the chains, pulled on them and brought the pillars down on himself and the Philistine leadership. Once again peace reigned in the land of Israel, for a time.

Now this is more than a Bible story.  It is also related to the search for human perfection, in that Samson’s hair was also the source of the nation’s pride even though they didn’t know it exactly.  Let me rephrase that Samson’s strength was the nation’s pride and the defence against their enemies.  We all, at some point, or another, see the way that other people have the ability to do something that we struggle with daily.  This is how we see our flaws,

It is not God’s intention that we would be frustrated in this.  God stands ready to release us of this tension in our lives He wants us to be fulfilled in our lives to live our lives out in Him.  To do this we need to submit our lives to Him so that He can create a new life in us.