{"id":4474,"date":"2023-01-04T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2023-01-04T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:38:06","slug":"devotional-on-judges-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-judges-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Fl2xm8kWswA\/XbNG135yVMI\/AAAAAAABCM8\/efeQWKcAWFYy7tnfyazMyxf1GDv-x4nIwCKgBGAsYHg\/s1600\/P9259765.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Grand Canyon, AZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hair today, gone tomorrow<br \/>\nJudges 16: Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;Tell me, dear, the secret of your great strength.&#8221;<br \/>\nSamson is a one-man army. Other Israelite liberators inspire people to follow them and rally armies to action. Samson does it all by himself. It\u2019s just Samson and God. Well, really it\u2019s just God. Samson&#8217;s unshaved head is the symbol of his connection to God and cutting his hair will break that relationship. Subtract God from his life and Samson is a zero. When Samson stupidly tells Delilah his story he breaks that relationship with God. Soon, the wheels come off and all is lost. I\u2019m tempted to say, &#8220;Without his hair Samson\u2019s just an ordinary man.&#8221; Actually, though, it\u2019s, &#8220;Without his God, Samson\u2019s just an ordinary man.&#8221; Subtract the unique features of this story and we\u2019re left with the truth Jesus stated in John 15:5: \u201capart from me you can do nothing.\u201d<br \/>\nTake Away: Every good thing I accomplish is because of the Lord\u2019s presence in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hair today, gone tomorrow Judges 16: Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;Tell me, dear, the secret of your great strength.&#8221; Samson is a one-man army. Other Israelite liberators inspire people to follow them and rally armies to action. Samson does it all by himself. It\u2019s just Samson and God. Well, really it\u2019s just God. Samson&#8217;s unshaved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1511,7],"tags":[137,336,425,942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14167,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/14167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}