Comments on: Bringing Down the House http://adifferentstory.net/2009/10/27/bringing-down-the-house/ Sat, 19 May 2012 17:15:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: donkimrey http://adifferentstory.net/2009/10/27/bringing-down-the-house/#comment-993 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:17:20 +0000 http://adifferentstory.net/?p=1778#comment-993 Wow! This is good stuff! I’ve been at work for quite a while on studies about “God’s comeback kids.” Samson is certainly in that category of “heroes” who weren’t “heroic” all the time. I enjoyed the visit to your site and will definitely come back. Isn’t it great to have your Dad following as he does and offering such support?

]]> By: David @ Redletterbelievers.com http://adifferentstory.net/2009/10/27/bringing-down-the-house/#comment-921 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:45:13 +0000 http://adifferentstory.net/?p=1778#comment-921 Samson is such a study in contrasts….he was filled with love and passion for God but undone by love and passion for the things of this earth

David
http://www.redletterbelievers.com

]]> By: Dad http://adifferentstory.net/2009/10/27/bringing-down-the-house/#comment-920 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:24 +0000 http://adifferentstory.net/?p=1778#comment-920 Only one live,
twill soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will last.

It’s trite but it sort of sums up Samson’s life. A few fleeting moments of a life dedicated to what God wanted of him.

How much better to stand before the judgment seat with a lifetime of service and fidelity to Christ.

Dad

]]> By: Julie http://adifferentstory.net/2009/10/27/bringing-down-the-house/#comment-919 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:27:52 +0000 http://adifferentstory.net/?p=1778#comment-919 Remembered? Or perhaps found Him for the first.

Wow! Great stuff here….
Wouldn’t it be great to “find Him for the first” every second of every day. It would be like finding our one true love over and over and over again. I want to experience that all the time….of course I do not want to be anything like Samson-lol. I would hope I would have gotten it through my head a whole lot faster.

Thanks for the pdf- I am saving this one to go back and study!

]]> By: Jennifer@ More Than Just Adam's Rib http://adifferentstory.net/2009/10/27/bringing-down-the-house/#comment-918 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:57:27 +0000 http://adifferentstory.net/?p=1778#comment-918 “O Sovereign LORD”–those words make me catch my breath. The mighty Samson, acknowledging God’s power and rule above all–even above himself and his pride. Such submission. But so utterly sad that he had to lose his eyes, his freedom, and his life to “break” himself to the point where he could acknowledge God as Sovereign.

And how awesome is our God that even if we don’t get onboard with his agenda until the very last, even if our faith only manages to focus on God alone with our last breath—we, too, can be runners up in God’s hall of fame.

To live well is to end well, in faith.

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