Yeah, Halleluja!

The most miraculous thing happened last nite... that is the love of my life who claimed that she doesn't cook... actually cooked dinner for me last nite! What a pleasant surprise! It was delicious too! Woohoo! I have an awesome wife and God is an awesome God!!! ;)

Space shuttle landed safely too! Whew...! So the damaged thermal tiles still did the job... given all the diasters such as hurricane, earthquake, collapsed mine or bridges or stock market... it's good to have some good news I guess! :)

Today's reading is about Samson. Wife was actually discussing life of Samson with me last nite... did God plan out his life to be like that? Surely the Philistine wife setup was..., but it was also obvious that Samson wasn't that obedient and didn't live his life as a Nazirite... and the cutting off of the hair was the last straw... and God finally left him. However because of his repentance, God also finally gave him back the gift once again to judge the Philistines...

Samson was a pretty lousy guy who lived a lousy life, that's obvious..., but what's the moral of the story? That God uses lousy people in ministries of today too? (That's wife's view! ;)) And it's kinda true too! There are plenty of lousy folks serving in ministries, and let's face it, people are simply naturally in that lousy nature! Of course that's no excuse for us to continue on being lousy... we've gotta improve... or be more obedient. Had Samson lived an obedient life, surely there'd be a different and more glorious story. Okay, obedience is hard, improvements can be even harder, but perhaps we can at least hold the ground? To not become worse? Such as Samson... eventually letting the prostitute to cut his hair off... It's plainly absusing God's mercy and grace.

Anyway, I don't have any problems with lame people serving in the ministries, I think it only goes to show how amazingly merciful and graceful God can be. But of course that amazing grace has its limits... and it's a limited time offer! (Until Christ comes back to finally judge the world who continue to abuse God's grace and mercy.)

May God be merciful and graceful to me and my family... and may Christ help us to become better... or at least hold the line so that we won't continue to waste the good things God has given us.... Help us to become more like You LORD God! In Jesus' name we pray...

(Judges 13-16)