People say that you live and learn, but sadly, too many people just live! Samson is a man much like that, making mistakes, the same mistakes, over and over again. He is the saviour of Israel and yet he is a man who needs a saviour. Samson is indeed a weak man in man areas […]

We find Samson at one point in this chapter facing certain defeat. Surrounded by 1000 men of his enemies and given over by his own people, he surely has no way out. Yet God gives him victory out of certain defeat. For all human beings, there is certain death because of sin. there is no […]

For many people, the struggle with sin is a slide. There is a gradual rather than steep slide downwards What can be so small and seemingly insignificant, to begin with, can spread and infect the whole of our being. In Samson, we see impulsiveness and disregards for his parents, a man who does what is […]

As we are given the birth announcement of Samson, we find that he is born into a period in history when the Israelites continue to do what is right in their own eyes. The people, then, like today are powerless to change themselves or be saved. So then, like today, God takes the initiative and […]