Revelation 2:4-5 The heavy bronze millstone scraped endlessly against the stone floor, pulled forward by a man who could once tear a lion apart with his bare hands. Samson stood blind and broken inside a Gaza prison, reduced to a captive spectacle for a mocking crowd, with his best days seemingly buried beneath the ruins of his own poor choices.
Revelation 2:4-5 The heavy bronze millstone scraped endlessly against the stone floor, pulled forward by a man who could once tear a lion apart with his bare hands.
Samson stood blind and broken inside a Gaza prison, reduced to a captive spectacle for a mocking crowd, with his best days seemingly buried beneath the ruins of his own poor choices.
We often look at a life like his and assume the story is permanently finished when the strength is gone.
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Revelation 2:4-5 The heavy bronze millstone scraped endlessly against the stone floor, pulled forward by a man who could once tear a lion apart with his bare hands. Samson stood blind and broken inside a Gaza prison, reduced to a captive spectacle for a mocking crowd, with his best days seemingly buried beneath the ruins of his own poor choices. We often look at a life like his and assume the story is permanently finished when the strength is gone.
Samson inflicted at the very end of his life were greater than all the ones he destroyed during his younger years. "The hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved." (Judges 16:22). When Samson sat in the dark grinding grain, stripped of his sight and status, it looked like the absolute end.
"But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the first love. Yet the narrative of Scripture holds a startling truth. Zeal in the Christian life can easily rust shut over time.
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