Hair

Samson found pleasure in Delilah, yet in the soft cradle of compromise, he drifted into a sleep that cost him everything. While he slept, his hair was cut from him, and the anointing that had always clothed his weakness departed with it.

We are all weak without Him. None of us likes weakness, and everything in us wants to be in control. We don’t want the challenges to be too big, the walls too high, the battles too far beyond our reach. We want the kind of walls we can climb with a ladder if the shout doesn’t work. We want something solid under our feet, not water. But nothing about being a disciple of Jesus is possible without miracles. It is impossible to live the Christian life without supernatural intervention. The task of turning hardened sceptics into men and women who will lay down their lives for Jesus Christ is, of course, impossible apart from the miraculous work of God. And miracles only happen in the atmosphere of weakness, need, and impossibility.

God’s plan has always been to work through weak vessels so that He alone receives the credit. He even says, “My power is made perfect in your weakness.” When Paul grasped this, he didn’t shrink from it; he embraced it. “Therefore I will gladly boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” That is the posture of a man who has discovered the secret of strength.

Can we say the same? Can we say that we are more interested in God’s power being released through us than in our comfort or ease? Trials and troubles pull us to our knees, but when pressure lifts, we drift toward the arm of the flesh, and our spiritual effectiveness withers. Samson was a man who forgot where his strength lay. Without God, he was as weak as any man.

Friend, it takes the full seven locks of God’s anointing to fulfil our destiny. The saddest thing is that many of us are content to live with one or two locks, happy with a partial anointing, satisfied with a manageable Christianity. But heaven is calling us to grow our “hair” again — to return to His presence, to recover consecration, to let the anointing fall fresh upon our weakness until His strength becomes our strength. Let’s grow!