Judges 16:20b But he did not know that the Lord had left
him.
I think this is the saddest verse in the
Bible. For Samson, who had lived his
entire life under the vow of a Nazarite (one dedicated to serving God), not cutting his hair as a part of his dedication
to God, for him to not even recognize the absence of God’s Spirit, is so
sad. It is also frightening to me to see
how easily this happened. In spite of that vow of service, Samson lived a life of extreme self-indulgence without any regard for anything or anyone else, it appears. Everything was about Samson, with no thought about his relationship with God. I never want
to become so full of myself and my own desires that I lose my sensitivity for
holiness, for God’s presence and activity in my life, for attention to
godliness, that I lose the ability to recognize spiritual weakness and the
desire to be right with God first of all.
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