Judges 14:4 NIV
(His parents did not know that this was from the Lord , who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)
As we take stock of our lives today, I'm sure that if we had oppourtunity, there are many things we would do differently if we could change the past. We have all taken decisions we regretted later or did not expect the outcome and we would have wished that things had turned out differently.
Samson's life story teaches a few things about God and the way he works. You see a true child of God going through 'hell' on earth and we conclude that there must have been sin present in his/her life. We cannot comprehend how a loving God could allow such bitter experiences for his children. We catch ourselves almost wanting to tell God how he should direct our own lives because we think we know how best things should work out for us. But if there's anything I know now about God, there's an end product God has for every life and how he brings us there is his prerogative. If my life's journey is to take 80 yearz to complete, there's nothing I can do to speed it up if God doesn't allow it. If I move out of his will because I feel God is slow, God in his mercy may still bring me to the place he's prepared but there will be a price to pay. If I fold my hands and do nothing, God may still have mercy but the experience may not be pleasurable for me.
What then should I do? Do I sit down, believing that no matter what I do, God's plan will come to pass; or do I hustle, striving hard to ensure that God's best plans for me come to pass? I believe that both steps are important: God is to big to be fitted into my narrow expectations and his power is too awesome to be fully understood by my mortal mind. Even though he's a God of order, He can bypass procedure and process to prove a point. He allows anything and everything we see for a purpose: so that we are trained and built up into his perfection. All that we go through are for our benefit, so that through his lessons learnt, we are his living message to a dying world.
Samson's experience here is fundamental. God can use anything and everything for his purpose. He can take our most rash decisions and bless generations after us with them. He can take our inactions atimes and turn them into a message of life to others. It is His prerogative, his message, his creation and his world.
Everything comes from God. It is our experiences and limitations that label some things as bad; with God, EVERYTHING works for good for those who love God. Walk, work and wait for Him today, he's working out something pleasurable from the present pain. His time of favour is here
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