Who knows you when you're sleeping? - Samson Part 2

So continuing from part 1.

Temptation and Accusation:

We see as mentioned earlier about the general wearing down that we suffer as part of the attack, we saw it in verse 5 when the enemy pushed Delilah "by what means we may prevail" then from verses 6 - 16 we see that Delilah presses him not stop to tell her his weakness the way for the enemy to beat him. ( Look the verse up)

It is verse 16 the is of particular interest though:16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. She "pressed him daily" and at the final point he was weaker, so much that his soul was "near death" and then she accuses him. In verse 15 " How can you say you love me"
Accusation and Temptation
We see in this theme of Samson the marriage of Sin, and how quite often we see there is more in the attack. Today we see accusation, how horrible is that, we have all been on the end of accusation. Sadly, the thing that marries up with accusation is temptation and we see that in the verses here. The moment he is accused of not loving her and he is mocking and making fun of her, he then is tempted to tell her the truth. We actually see this marriage again in Luke 4 in the temptaion of Jesus in the desert. Satan accuses Jesus of not being of God and then tempts him to turn the rock into bread.
Accusation and temptation.

Now when you are feeling bad, check yourself, are you being accused of something? Are you now under attack and being tempted?

So how do we help in this?

Encouragement:

Encouragement of doing something right . This is the best way to attack and fight back against the attack of accusation and temptation. Christian or not, how often do you see a smile come on to people's faces when you encourage them and say something nice to them. You often here that if you say good morning or smile at someone first thing in the morning that they continue to smile or are polite to others throughout the day. Spreading the love. At what cost was it to you that you encouraged someone, saying something nice doesn't cost you a thing, and you never know that you saying a word of encouragement might tip the internal war and fight that the person is going through.

So ending on verse 17 and 1817 So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on my head," he said, "because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man."
18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, "Come back once more; he has told me everything." So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands.So he told her everything. Why? Was it because he was weak and worn down. Realistically probably not, but what he really wants is to have that allie, the person to rely on when he is under attack. He did it because he wants to be known and really known by one person the person that he actually now thinks he can trust. Especially in times of distress.
Truth and allies
We know that this act will lead to him being arrested and then to his death. This act of him telling her everything cost him everything. But you see that she saw a change in him enough to realise that he was telling the truth you read "Delilah saw that he had told her all of his heart" She saw a change on him, so much that she knew when she didn't before. He has finally told the truth and now has the feeling of peace, this is a visible change within him.

This change of telling the truth, telling everything made him feel he had allies, this brought him peace and shows realistically the strength of encouragement that you can have when you have people who you are accountable to, people who you can stand next to and stand strong in the fight against people.

So who really knows you?