Her words sound compelling, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me?" Judges 16:15. Her motives are oh-so-wrong. Money. Ambition. Motives matter.
It's the story of Samson and Delilah. Samson, more than once, falls prey to the love of a woman. He is warned over and over and over but falls into a snare. And this third time, it costs Samuel his very life. Do we do the same? Licentiousness. A license to do whatever we please. What do we want more than we want the love of Christ?
May God open our spiritual eyes to see what we are doing. May the suffering and sadness we face make us more dependent on You. Grant us freedom in the grasp of what entangles our thoughts, our actions.
PHOTO: The railroad tracks, 50 yards from the school where I teach. Freighted words. Barrelling through in power but out-of-control. Do my words hold weight?
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