You\u2019re asking for trouble when you refuse to take God seriously.<\/i> The angel who announced Samson\u2019s birth said he was to \u2018be a Nazirite\u2019,<\/i> indicating that he was to be dedicated to doing God\u2019s will. But Samson was careless about his spiritual life. He prayed only when he was in trouble. He was impulsive; he did whatever he felt like doing. <\/p>\n
The truth is, we\u2019d save ourselves so many problems and spare ourselves so much pain if we\u2019d just stop and ask God for direction. Samson turned to God only when he got into a jam. It\u2019s what we call \u2018foxhole Christianity\u2019. We pray, \u2018Lord, if You get me out of this dilemma, I promise I\u2019ll live for You from now on.\u2019 <\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the question: is God just an afterthought, a convenience to you? When things get tough and you\u2019re in a tight spot you turn to Him in desperation, but when everything\u2019s alright you ignore Him? Only when Samson was captured by the Philistines, his eyes gouged out, and he was grinding grain at a mill like an ox, do we read that he genuinely turned to God in prayer. What kind of history might Samson have had if he\u2019d prayed right from the beginning? Why did he wait until everything fell apart before turning to God?<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t have to be that way in your<\/i> life! The psalmist said, \u2018Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to Him. You will eat the fruit of your labour; blessings and prosperity will be yours.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm 128:1\u20132 NIV) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You\u2019re asking for trouble when you refuse to take God seriously. The angel who announced Samson\u2019s birth said he was to \u2018be a Nazirite\u2019, indicating that he was to be dedicated to doing God\u2019s will. But Samson was careless about his spiritual life. He prayed only when he was in trouble. He was impulsive; he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}