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Monday, November 16, 2015

OT DAY 378 - The 2nd Trap for Samson - Ignoring God (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1. Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2. Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1. Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2. Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3. Open your heart to praise the Lord

Praise the Lord!
Praise the name of the Lord,
give praise, O servants of the Lord,

who stand in the house of the Lord,

in the courts of the house of our God!

Psalm 135 :1-2

Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html)

1. Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

“Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2. Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Judges 14:5-9)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges 14&version=ESV

5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring. 6 Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. 7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson's eyes.

8 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9 He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.

Judges 14:5-9

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening

Samson's first trap is "Me first". Today's passage shows his second trap planned by the devil for him to step in showing his poor relationship with God and his weakness, that is "Ignoring God". Is that the tearing off the loin a gift from God? Why it is his weakness?

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

Samson is behaving in a fashion that denies his vocation. It is a theme running through his story. Investigating the lion's carcass points to it, because being dedicated to God means avoiding contact with dead things; Samson ignores that principle. Here, too, however, God simply makes this contribute to the fulfilling of that purpose. God will use Samson whether he does the right thing or the wrong thing.

John Goldingay. Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.138.

Do you think Samson knew that God did not allow him to touch dead things? Yes, he did. Why he did so? Well, he cared less. Samson has a way to say, "I want it. I want to do it. So what? I don't care"

What I received from Jesus today is to show our weakness as a human being: Me first, God last!

How can we be renewed to live out "God first, me last"?

Dear Lord Jesus,

It is so easy to say we love you and you are our top priority. Help us to live out "God first, me last". In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you think you have similar weakness as Samson?

2. How can you change?

3. What have you got from Jesus today?

Today's Time with Abba daily reading that I recited loudly and copy the Bible is:

Psalm 123:1-4

Ezekiel 33:1-34:31

Hebrews 13:1- 25

Proverbs 27:21-22

Photos of my copying the Bible today using Time with Abba passages

Today's Golden Verse