- Judges 15 Daily DEVO And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. Judges 15:15 – While I think we all would agree this isn’t the most beautiful of miracles God did in scripture, it is pretty amazing that a single person could do all that. What we must remember though when we read in scripture something amazing like this being done through a person that it is God’s power, not their own, making it happen. Even in this case the verse before says the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. Let’s be sure that even within our life when something amazing is done we give God the glory for it rather than ourselves or someone else. Remember it’s because of His power we are conquerors, victors, heirs, and loved by Him. Keep in mind it’s always all about Him. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 595
- Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.” Judges 15:11 – As they did to me, so I have done to them. Such a common way to handle issues today. They hurt me, I’ll hurt them. They trashed me on social media, well, I can do that too. I can repay their evil with evil easily. True, and you may be very creative with how you do it, but is that truly the heart of Jesus? Remember how David continually spoke about his issues with Saul…I’ll repay his evil with good. This is the heart of Jesus and this is what will shock the world. You won’t attract anyone to Jesus fighting fire with fire. Yet, when you respond with compassion, patience, and kindness to their hate and anger that will confuse them in the best of ways. Evil for evil is not what we’re called to. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1798
- And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the Lord and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” Judges 15:18 – Samson had found himself in a cycle of retaliation with the Philistines. They attack him, he attacks them back, and the cycle continued. Right before this verse Samson had just killed 1000 Philistines single-handedly with the jawbone of a donkey. A seemingly massive victory for Samson, yet after such a feat of strength, we see him acknowledge that all the strength and victory wasn’t enough for he was to die if he didn’t get a glass of water. God allowed Samson to be very thirsty and not find water to quench his thirst until Samson turned to the Lord to ask for help. God’s wanted Samson to realize that without Him, no victory would ever of happened against Samson’s enemies and that without God Samson wouldn’t be able to survive. As we then experience victories in our life that are followed by some simple, but very real need, know that often it isn’t God seeking to punish us. Like with Samson, God is using that need to redirect our eyes onto Him. To remind us that it was due to Him that we found our victory and without Him we can’t make it through this life. This is not God being cruel, for even in this Samson story it ended with victory and water being given to Samson. As then the times of “thirst” come upon you, allow that thirst to redirect your eyes to the Lord as the supplier of all your victories and needs. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2871
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