Samson Lost His Vision Samson’s disability is a physical one that removes his ability to be affected by and to effect the world around him through vision. sighted samson is led by his eyes; blinded samson is led by the hand of another. Deuteronomy 28 warns that covenant infidelity brings loss of protection and physical affliction: “the lord will strike you with blindness…” (v. 28). samson’s blinding is a specific enactment of that covenant curse.
Bible Samson Wallpapers Wallpaper Cave It was delilah who betrayed samson by nagging him into telling her the secret of his strength, lulling him to sleep, and calling for a man to sneak in and cut off his hair (judges 16:5 20). Samson was the man whose life was governed by sight, and who lived according to what was right in his own eyes. but, overnight, the judge would no longer be able to do anything according to sight. Eventually, this caused him to become captured, blinded, and humiliated. only after samson lost his sight did he regain his strength by crying out to god. from his failures in judges 16, god reveals seven lessons about the dangers of walking by sight. More than anything else, samson’s story is about how he used his eyes—what he looked at (judges 14:1,2), what he followed and how that affected his life. his eyes led him in the wrong direction many times, and in the end, he lost them (judges 16:21).
Samson Bible Eventually, this caused him to become captured, blinded, and humiliated. only after samson lost his sight did he regain his strength by crying out to god. from his failures in judges 16, god reveals seven lessons about the dangers of walking by sight. More than anything else, samson’s story is about how he used his eyes—what he looked at (judges 14:1,2), what he followed and how that affected his life. his eyes led him in the wrong direction many times, and in the end, he lost them (judges 16:21). By taking out his eyes, they eliminated the lifelong hindrance that samson had. now, in his blindness, he was able to see god like never before. his sight had proven to be his downfall and now his blindness would lead to his greatest moment of victory. Before samson lost his physical eyes, he had already lost spiritual sight. sin distorts perception. it makes wrong look right and dangerous paths seem harmless. when you are blinded by sin, you ignore warnings, you justify wrong actions, and you lose sensitivity to god’s voice. spiritual blindness is more dangerous than physical blindness. Samson never got his eyesight back. he lived the remainder of his life in total darkness. he was sorry till the day he died that sin had caused him to lose his eyesight. When samson finally revealed to delilah the secret of his strength, then he lost his seven locks, and consequentially, the spirit of god that had been the source of his great strength left him, so that he was captured by the philistines who then put out his eyes.
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