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Monday, January 9, 2017

The Good Legacy of Samson

Samson had some very obvious spiritual flaws and glaring moral failures. He preferred the company of pagan prostitutes like Delilah over the love of any faithful daughter of the one true God.

His sinful tendencies came with heavy consequences. He was betrayed by  Delilah. He became a prisoner of the Philistines. His eyes were plucked out. He died a violent death at a young age.

Yet the author of the book of Hebrews counts Samson in with the righteous heroes of faith:

"who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouthes of lions, quenched the violence of fire, out of weakness were made strong, became valient in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens (Hebrews 11:32-34).

By grace, through faith, Samson's legacy is something more, and better than his flaws and failures. His affairs - yeah, that happened. His capture, his humiliation, his death - yeah, that happened.

But his legacy is that he was a servant of the Most High God. And God took him, with all his weaknesses, and did powerful things through him.

This makes me glad because, like Samson, I am not perfect. I'm not going to be perfect in this life. And neither will you, or anyone else. We are going to be imperfect. We are going to have failures. It's going to happen.

But thank God that by grace He can give us a legacy that is greater than ourselves!

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