One day Samson went to the Philistine town of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute.
Judges 16:1
But he told me, ‘You will become pregnant and give birth to a son. You must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink nor eat any forbidden food. For your son will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite from the moment of his birth until the day of his death.
Judges 13:7
He didn’t take his dedication seriously. His downfall began the minute he stopped taking his dedication seriously.
Flirting with my flesh is spiritually dangerous and irresponsible, yet when I do, the source of strength is weakened little by little. In doing so I:
“As long as he is consecrated, he is strong; break that, he is weak as water. Now there are a thousand razors with which the devil can shave off the locks of a consecrated man without his knowing it. Samson is sound asleep; so clever is the barber that he even lulls him to sleep as his fingers move across the pate, the fool’s pate, which he is making bare. The devil is cleverer far than even the skillful-barber; he can shave the believer’s locks while he scarcely knows it.” – Charles Spurgeon
Micah set up a shrine for the idol, and he made a sacred ephod and some household idols. Then he installed one of his sons as his personal priest.
Judges 17:5
I don’t have authority to change God’s order of things. Micah didn’t have the authority to name is own personal priest.
How seriously do I take my dedication to the Lord?
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