The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-11
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3. god hath delivered Samson our
!. enemy into our hand" was the
boast Of the PhiIistines. They
+ saw in the downfall of their
. powerful enemy an evidence of
. the favor of their god Dagon,
]. and a proof of their WI Prov
+ ess. And that is as far as they
!. could see or understand. Evil
: always is half blind. Its vision
+ is limited by the horizon of the
: physical and temporal. Ii eIimi-
!. mates the true God as a factor
and places superstition and
+ pride upon the throne of rea-
son. Evil does not recognize
: God as d controlling factor in
!. the affairs of life; it does not
: understand that 1t ~overreaches
itself and brings about its w
: destruction.
+ But from the Divine view
. point, evil triumphs over the
!. good because sin is permitted
. to usurp the place of God in the
+ heart and life. The fortress of
Z the heart is impregnable until
+ the little side door of sin is
opened to admit the enemy.
: Samson was d defeated man
+ from the moment he let the
+ earthly love usurp the place of
God, and the final yielding to
: the opportunities of Delilah was
/ but the inevitable outcome of
!: such unhoIy alliance.
+ Let no man say when he is
: tempted, ! am tempted of God;
!: for God cannot be tempted with
& evil, neither tempteth He any
!. man; but every lar is tempted
+ when he is drawn away of his
+ w lust and enticed. Then
. when lust hath conceived, IL
f Sringeth forth sin; and sin,
: when it is finished, bringeth
forth death"
t. Recovered Strength. - But
: while evil in its blindness was
+ glorying in the fall of the
+ mighty Samson, the mercy and
!. forgiveness of God we're BEING
: bestowed upon a repentant sim
!. e What evil can do to a man
is nothing to what God can do
+ for him. Samson shorn and
. blind and In the power of the
: enemy may yet rise above the
|. miserable conditions into
!: which his sin has plunged him.
!. He may again become the in
!: strument of Righteousness to
!: the condemnation and judgment
! upon evil.
+ "If we confess our sins He is
|: faithful and just to forgive US
cur sins and cleanse us from all
!. righteousness" The prison
house at GAIA became Samson's
. confessional. The PhiIistines
: could shut out the light of day
!. from his eyes, but they could
. not shut out God from his
!. heart. They could bind his
: limbs with letters of brass, but
|. they could not chain down his
: spirit and prevent it from
. reaching out and finding the
: forgiving and restoring God.
. After all, how circumscribed
|. are the powers of evil. How
. the servant of God ought to rea-
. Iize the possibilities which lie
. within him as he links his life
. with that of God.
To fall Into sin is grievous,
!. but to remain in the condition
: where sin has cast US is mex
. cusable, objectionable. Here is
!. where Samson's faith, spoken of
. in the eleventh of Hebrews,
. shines out the brightest. Though
!. the physical eyes we're never to
. e again, not so with the eyes
. of the soul. Faith touched the
!. blindness which had come from
. sin and the soul looks up and
!. sees the God that giveth
. strength to the humble and re-
. storeth them which be of a
contrite spirit, and so we find
. the latter end of this man Sam
: o was better than the first;
. that he rose above defeat to
!. win a browning victory. SO
!. may it be with every child of