Lessons from Delilah
Good day, I am still in utter disbelief that I titled this blog “lessons from Delilah”. I mean, we all know that Delilah did Samson dirty, what could we possibly learn from the girl? So, my pastor has been teaching a series on Samson; well, it started as a teaching on the various judges but then slowly became a series on perhaps the most notable judge recorded specifically in the book of Judges: so (as I wave my hands in surrender), no shade to Samuel, I know that he was exceptional but this is solely looking at the judges recorded in the Book of Judges. Now that I am done overexplaining myself 😊 , let’s get to it. As I was saying, we have been learning about Samson, and Delilah is one of the key figures in the story because of the role she played in the capturing of Samson by the Philistines. Delilah is introduced in Judges 16 after Samson spots her and falls in love. “4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek,...