Grace Out of Failure
Today’s Reading: Judges 16:23-30
Focal Verse: Hebrews 11:32a
And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon…
Have you ever blown it so big that you thought God would never be able to use you again? Or, perhaps you have seen a Christian fall in a big way, and felt their time of service was over?
Judges 16:1-22 records how Samson falls prey, once again, to his weakness for women as Delilah charms the secret of his strength from him. The Philistines put out his eyes and put him in prison.
In his humbled state, Samson prays to the God from who his strength comes from. God gracefully empowers him once more, and in the moment of Samson’s death, he destroys more of God’s enemies than he did in his life.
Samson was a man of many weaknesses: temper and a weakness for women being two of them. He is rewarded for his faith, however, by being listed in Hebrews Chapter 11, and is one of the heroes of faith we are to look to.
Samson, weak and sinful, but faithful in the end – looking to God for grace.
God can use you again, no matter how hard you have fallen. Humble yourself before Him. Lift up those you know who have stumbled to the God of grace.
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