Under Gods Command
Samson
Judges 13:1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, so the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
God was fed up with his people. He was so disgusted with their disobedience that he decided to hand them over to the Philistines. The idea was that the crack of a whip across their backs might help them see the error of their ways. But it didn’t work. Not only did they accept slavery as a way of life, their lack of repentance suggests that they actually grew content with it. This suffering was not caused by God, but resulted from the fact that the people ignored God, their Judge and Ruler. That they didn’t cry out to God is amazing, but not half as amazing as the fact that God decided to deliver them anyway. In what could only be described as phenomenal act of grace, God decided to rise up a strong man to lead His unrepentant people out of bondage. That man was Samson.
Lets bring it home: What will it take for us to follow God? The warnings in God’s World are clear: if we continue to harden our hearts against God, we can expect the same fate as Israel.
Under Gods command 