SAMSON: ALL HIS MIGHT
Then Samson put his hands on the two center pillars of the temple. He put his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other pillar. Then he shouted to God, “Let me die with the Philistines!”, and he pushed with all his strength. The pillars collapsed, and the temple crashed down on the Philistine leaders and all the other Philistine people, and they all died. So Samson killed more people when he died than he had killed all during his life. Later his brothers and their relatives went down from Zorah to Gaza to get his body. They took it back home and buried it between Zorah and Eshtaol, at the place where Samson's father Manoah was buried. Samson had been Israel's leader for twenty years. Judges 16:29-31 T4T
Samson died resting on two pillars on which the entire house of philistines with their five kings was rested, representing his two eyes which were plucked out. He knew having back his sight and vision could be unrealistic, so he sought some alternative - two pillars. He most probably had seen the building before fatally losing his eyes on the laps of Delilah but ignored its architecture and it haunted him. The same eyes which had kept him distracted and insatiable were plucked, he was then without sights nor glory, kept in the dungeon grinding corn, from which he obviously had his meals, daily.
Samson was betrayed by love, in the similitude of our Lord Jesus Christ whom Judas Iscariot the disciple with the purse betrayed with a kiss, an unholy embrace. A married man's concerns are for his wife - how he may please her. In the bid to satisfy Delilah, her requests and family ties, he told her everything about himself because he was tired, not of Delilah but God's hand on his life. Samson was indeed vexed to dying. He wanted to end his consecration and everything hindering from being a man, a human like others. He was tired of living for God and told Delilah the secret of Israel's might.
Remember Gen 34, Jacob's sons did not spare Shechem and his people having "seen finish" one secret of Israel, shared the covenant of God with His people Israel? After the people were duly circumcised, they launched a wild attack, unleashed terror on them while they were undergoing healing. Should Delilah have lived after seeing Samson's secrets? Should not her life ended? Oh, what a mistake Samson made as she was left to cook, twerking up and down her house, singing to the praise of Dagon their god. Samson sat there still thinking all was well. After the meals, Samson decided to nap on Delilah's lap, unfortunately, he never woke up! He slept forever, betrayed.
In the dungeon where Samson was taken bound, after some time, he started to recall Jehovah's love for him and how the Rock of Israel had been with him like the mighty terrible One and soon came to his senses. Still, his eyes were shut, the two were plucked and could not be opened. Samson remembered how detestable these heathens were to God because God was abhorrent to them and regretted his pure love for somebody like Delilah - a worthless filth, strayed strange woman, estranged from the reins of God and hated his own life - Luke 14:26-35, how he'd denied God instead, felt sorry for living wayward....Just suddenly, anointing from heaven fell on him and could sight the unseen. This time, not with his physical eyes but spiritual mind, for a young lad had led him to rest at the two centred pillars on which the entire house was rested. Samson saw something entirely different from his former aspiration - vengeance, then bowed with all might...
Might is a form of power generated through knowledge, by vast learning which is the only thing we eventually take out of this world. What you know is what knows you! Might also, is responsible for the saints' ascension to heaven. None has ever ascended to heaven bodily - Enoch, Elijah, Emmanuel, Etcetera with no might - they all became powerful in words. For without might, there's no salvation! Or say, it's almost an impossible thing to be saved without knowing the Truth. Samson had summoned his entire might, bent his wise words, all wisdom, folded his knowing in deep meditation and pull-pushed the two pillars of the building and died.
Samson died on the account of his might, bowed. He had lowered himself, humbled though humiliated. He forgot everything about himself and chose to die with the philistines, people to whom he was sent, probably it'd bring about the change he envisaged. Missions help to die with the people, if indeed we're willing to help them, living with them. The missionaries which brought the light of the gospel of Christ into Africa did just same thing. Families and friends may forget us but the people do - they remember every good deed we spent our entire life nurturing with them. More importantly, God remembers!
Thinking about the homes we left behind won't help because we've left them. Here we are on the mission - the mission field, in between the two pillars of life, the two eyes on which our whole lives are resting, will you turn back now?? What reasons have you? Reproaches, humiliations, pestilence, barrenness, attacks or even death? You've found purpose, what else matters? Take hold of these two pillars and forget yourself! And having denied yourself, thrust it a bit further. Don't just do it as a payback but as if your own life - as if there's nothing else to do. Do it with all your might. If need be, bow in death. Definitely, you'll have it back multifold because it's a seed sown. Shall we pray?
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