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Posted 14 October 2009, 4:48 PM by Wendy Hammond. Permalink

We are used to our heroes standing out from the crowd. They wear lycra pants, capes, masks, and leap across tall buildings. You can not help but get the feeling that they are special, different from everyone else. They fight for good in the world full of evil. But in Samson we find something really bizarre. Our hero looks like everyone else. Sure, he is strong, but when it comes to morals and virtue, he doesn't just look like everyone else, he is actually worse than most. Hardly the stuff we expect from our Bible heroes. But then is Samson really who we should be looking at here - or is there something else? Maybe we should be looking behind the scenes - to see the work of our Hero God. Read ahead in Judges 14. (Note verse 18, one of my favorites in the Bible "If you had not plowed with my heifer..."

Pastor: Clinton Berends