Ok, so here’s the deal for the morning…
1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day…
This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?
Judges 16:28-30
Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."
Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he bent with all his might so that the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life.
At the end of the day, before you go to bed….
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?
What are you thinking?
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This is quite an interesting passage, as it is so different from the others thus far. It almost seems as though we need more context but I think that Brian gave us only this part for a reason. What I'm getting out of this is that God WILL help us, even if we don't always thik that he will.
Alison,
yeah i agree that it's kinda random, and surprising that God would take part in this revenge......
the background is that Samson had been blinded and taken prisoner by the Philistines, that they had chained him to the pillars.
Others were asking about this passage last night at youth group. I think another key point shown in this passage is that God is a God of justice. The Philistines were the "bad guys" and had done terrible things to Samson and to the Israelites. But in the end, God punishes them for their evil by sending Samson to destroy them.
It also shows God's mercy, though. I love Samson's prayer that starts it all off. Samson had fallen from his vow to God and allowed Delilah to cut his hair. This prayer is Samson's prayer asking for forgiveness, and God forgives him and restores his strength.
I have a feeling that if the Philistines had also asked for God's forgiveness, He would have given it to them.
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