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Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Judges 16:13-22
There were secrets in Samson’s life: his riddle in Judges 14 and now here his Nazarite vow. He could not keep secret either the one or the other. The redeemed person has his own secrets with his Saviour: experiences of such a kind with Him that perhaps he cannot talk to anyone about them. Naturally our conversion is something which must be made known. On the other hand we cannot always explain to anyone else why we do or do not do a particular thing (Daniel 3:16). This reason is our being set apart for God, our "Nazarite vow" on which our spiritual strength depends.
Delilah is seductive and, day after day, torments poor Samson. And he, distracted and worried "unto death" ends by giving in. "She made him sleep", the story goes on. Fatal slumber! "Let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober", advises the apostle Paul (1 Thessalonians 5:6).
The victor over a lion, the strong man twice over, did not know how to guard his tongue (Judges 14:17 and Judges 16:17). "Every kind of beasts . . . hath been tamed of mankind," declares James, "but the tongue can no man tame" (James 3:7-8). To achieve this we need God’s help which He will only give to those who obey Him (1 John 3:22).
