Are you thirsty and tired?

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” ¹⁶ With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.

¹⁷ So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”

¹⁸ When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. ¹⁹ After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him.^[c] And his strength left him. ~Judges 16:15-19

 

Many people know the general story of Samson & Delilah. I'd like for you to be patient with me for a minute while I explain how the spirit of the above text is still relevant today. Samson was a man of great strength. Before Delilah, he had a wife that he was madly in love with whom his enemies ended up killing as an attack against him. While he took revenge on his enemies for killing the love of his life, Samson was still walking around with a hole in his chest that the love, admiration, and comfort of his wife once filled. As a man of great strength, he was still wounded in a sense being that his enemies destroyed the very person he loved and received his fulfillment from. This is where his thirst began. When a person is very thirsty for something, anything that even partly resembles what they once had or sometimes have never had, is often accepted, even a counterfeit version. 

Samson found his thirst and need for rest being fulfilled by a prostitute named Delilah. Delilah met Samson as a temptress. Samson wasn't a man that was led by lust. Samson was a man led by his desire to rest on the lap of someone that at least partly resembled what he lost in the battle...his wife. Be very careful when you are tired and thirsty as to where you lay your head because when we are in a desperate mindset, we will do desperate things and this can be blinding to our spiritual eyes because we are desperately seeking to nurse the wounds in our lives due to our various battles. 

Samson was resting in the lap of someone who was trying to kill him and get this...he knew it. He knew the lap that he was laying in was not one that was beneficial but he was so desperate that even a temporary moment of rest was something he was willing to accept. Sometimes we can break the rules when we're tired and desperate. We begin to compromise and go into denial within ourselves. Samson felt that he could lay with Delilah yet not lose what he had because he'd convinced himself that he had it under control...until she touched his wounded place with her words..."How can you say I love you when you won't confide in me?" I'm sure this took him back to the days where he and his wife would confide in each other and would have that special bond and love as a result of it so I'm sure that he thought just maybe he could get that back again from this temptress even if she'd already betrayed him several times before, he'd be willing to forget all of that and just hope this one time, it would be different and just maybe this time, he can get that hole in his chest filled again.

Samson is attracted to Delilah's light like a moth to a flame yet he is afraid of the fire. What do you do when your urges are in conflict with what you know to be true? How do you get the light you need without being burned by the fire? Something is saying that you have to have it...that's your carnal mind. The still small voice is saying, "Don't do it. You will get burned."...that's the spirit man.

Delilah wanted to know what made Samson so strong and different. She wanted to know this in order to try to kill it...so he could be ordinary like the enemies around him. 

God places in each of us unique and distinct talents and gifts that are meant to be used for the uplifting of his kingdom. There are times where the enemy will try to distract us through circumstances and sometimes relationships to figure out how to destroy those gifts and talents. His goal is to try to rape you of your stuff and then proceed to say you weren't nothing to begin with after he has succeeded. 

Don't lose your stuff. Stay vigilant. You have things on the inside of you that you aren't even aware of yet. Don't let people and circumstances deter you of the purpose and plan that God has for your life. He has a wonderful plan for your life. Don't believe me? Check this out-> His Plan for YOU

Don't let your mistakes or the labels that life has tried to place on you, define you. Look to God's word for validation. He validated you before you were formed in your mother's womb. God KNOWS you! You are already accepted in the beloved. Keep your eyes on him. He is your Source. Stop seeking validation and acceptance from others and material things and allow God to meet all of your needs. He knows every detail of your life so that means the people that are sent by him will be for you. The material things you may need in this life, will chase you down if you seek HIM in all of your ways. It won't be difficult. It will fall in place because when he has declared and decreed a thing, it comes to pass. Don't believe me again?? Check this out->HIS word STANDS  

Are you a Samson? Did you or have you accepted a Delilah as a temporary fix for a much deeper issue than you're willing to admit? A Delilah is not always a person. A Delilah can also be in the form of money, food, sex, a job, etc. What or Who is your Delilah?

I'd like to end this post by saying, God loves you. I know that there may be some wounds on your soul that you may or may not want to acknowledge. I know that behind that smile is a person crying out and seeking the need to be loved, validated, and accepted. I know that many times you may act or think in a way that is desperate to fulfill those needs. I know because I too am a Samson. I too have sought to fulfill deep wounds with a temporary fix. I've found that this is not the way. At the end of the day, the need will still be there if we are not looking to Jesus to heal these wounds in our hearts and souls. If we are not careful, we could very well end up laying in the lap of Delilah which is a temporary resting place that eventually turns into a place of affliction.

Seek Christ to fulfill your needs. Seek him for everything. Make him first in all that you do. Not your will be done, HIS will. You will not regret it. You will be made whole. You will have peace. You ARE loved. You ARE accepted. God doesn't make junk so don't treat yourself as such. Just try him.

Kingdom Love,

Nata Bee