Judges 16 - Praying God's Word

Please read Judges 16.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/jdg/16/1/s_227001

Meditate on verse 21.

Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes,

and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains,

and he was a grinder in the prison.

Samson had a problem with women, often succumbing to ones he saw and doing with them what was right in his own eyes. By the end of his life, his enticement by the visual became his undoing. His last woman, Delilah, betrayed him to the Philistines. These enemies seized him and gouged out his eyes (v. 21). He no longer sinned with that part of his body.

Jesus preached a lot about eyes. He said, “The eye is the lamp of the body; if your eye is bad, your whole body is full of darkness. Is your eye envious? Take the log out of your eye, and tear out your eye if it makes you stumble” (Matthew 5:29; 6:22-23; 7:5; 20:15). Jesus wanted his followers to understand that doing what was right in their own eyes was sinning.

God wants you to understand these truths. Seek to do what is right in His eyes rather than what is right in the eyes of the world.

Use the words from Judges 16:28 to pray over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“O LORD God, please remember _________ and me,

 and please strengthen us again this time.

O God, may our eyes not be the cause for vengeance.

Let us see with Your eyes, LORD Jesus~”

The Watchman on the Wall 2 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell