Old School

Andrew, Adley and I have been attebding BBC since we moved to Fletcher and we love it. Because andrew works most Sunday's we cannot attend church in the mornings, but BBC offers an awesome worship service at 6pm with the same sermon as the morning service. It's called vertical and we love it!

Over the past few weeks Pastor Frank has been teaching on the subject of "Old School"-classic characters from back in the day. It's nice to focus on the old testement, because i myself dont tend to stray to that part of my Bible. I need to change that. There were so many important characters and stories and teachings from God even before Jesus came that can teach us great lessons. It's nice to study those old school characters.

Last night we looked in the book of Judges and the story of Samson. I had always been familiar with the whole story of Samson and Delilah, but i had never looked further into it past the whole "femme fatale" and such.

Anyway's, Pastor Frank taught on the aspect of how Samson continued to stray from God through his marriage and sentuality. But, Samson always thought he was invincable. Although he kept doing all these unholy things he still had Gods favor. In Judges 16:20 when the Philistines were coming for Samson he awoke from his sleep and automatically thought he could revert back to his old ways and "shake himself free, or get out of this mess with the help and strength of God. "But he did not know that the Lord had left him". --When it says the Lord had left him it does not mean he forgot about him or left him stranded it simply is saying: God will let us go to show us how futile it is without him. This is why some Christians struggle with the same issues as non-Christians or why Christ followers stray from what is right. But, if you read later in the chapter God came back to Samson and gave him strength. He never really leaves us. He only wants us to see how hateful life and the world is without him.

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Thank you Lord for being ever faithful.Even though we stray from you, you are always there for us when we want to return. Praise God for his commitment to us. If only we all could have the same commitment to Him.