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DON 'T LOSE YOUR SIGHT
Memorise:
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; .. Psalm 13:3
Read:
Judges 16:4-26
Message
In today 's Bible reading, Delilah manipulated Samson into revealing the secret of his strength, then she passed it on to the Philistines.Armed with this information, the Philistines shaved off his hair while he was asleep on her knees, captured him, plucked out his eyes, and imprisoned him. However, after a while, his hair began to grow again, but he never regained his sight. The same man who killed a lion with his fists, killed a thousand people with the jawbone of an ass, and carried the heavy gates of a city up a hill, now needed a young boy to guide him so he wouldn 't trip and fall because of his involvement with a Philistine woman against God 's law. Those who toy with sin are in grave danger of losing their sight like Samson.
The devil and his cohorts are referred to as the rulers of the darkness of this world (Ephesians 6:12), and they want everyone to live in darkness with them. This is why they will stop at nothing to make believers lose their spiritual sight. Christians who lose their spiritua sight often begin to call good 'evil ' and evil 'good ' and become slaves to the things they had once conquered. This is why a man of God who had once preached against sin, for example, can turn around to say that adultery is not a sin. Such a fellow might even misquote Scriptures to justify his blindness. The devil often causes believers to lose their spiritual sight by exploiting their weaknesses and causing them to fall into sin, as he did with Samson. Before Samson fell, the Philistines studied him carefully to discover his weakness, and they noticed that he had a lustful desire forwomen, so they connived with Delilah to bring him down. Likewise, the devil studies people to discover their weaknesses, so he can tempt them into committing sin, and then take their spiritual sight. Don 't fall into his trap!
Beloved, do you find yourself falling into some particular sins repeatedly? Are you living in sin while still trying to show up like a devoted Christian? Don 't let satan succeed in removing your spiritual eyes so he can imprison you. Approach God in humility and ask for His help. He gives grace to the humble (James 4:6), and His grace will help you overcome sin (Romans 6:14).May you never lose your sight, in Jesus ' name.
Bible In One Year:
Proverbs 4-7
Hymn:
Yield Not To Temptation
Key Point:
Don 't toy with sin so you don 't lose your spiritual sight.
Yield not to temptation
Ask the Saviour to help you
Comfort, strengthen, and keep you;
He is willing to aid you,
He will carry you through.
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