"So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies" –Judges 16:6
Several years ago, in Adventure Sunday, the teachers used kids from the audience to act out the story of Samson. The main character was played by this short, skinny little kid. We all thought it was hilarious, I mean he was the exact opposite of what Samson would have looked like! I called the poor kid Samson for years after that (drove him crazy!).
Today, I was randomly thinking about Samson (I'm kinda weird like that), and It dawned on me that maybe our Adventure Sunday leaders weren't too far from the truth. If Samson looked like the Incredible Hulk (but without green skin) why would Delilah need to ask him where his strength lie? I mean, come on, if the guy had muscles bulging out of places where most people don't even have places, why would you even assume there was any secret to his strength?!
I think I'm beginning to understand that God doesn't use us because of our strengths; He uses us in-spite of them. Paul was a highly educated Pharisee–he was the perfect choice to preach to the jews–yet, God sent him to the gentiles. Peter was just an ignorant fisherman from Galilee–impulsive and unrefined–but, he was sent to the Jews.
2 Corinthians 12:9 tells us, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”
Maybe we just need to get out of the way and let God do His thing... He is God after all.
