Such was Samson’s father’s plea to instruct him on how to raise the son whom God purposed to be a great, anointed leader of Israel. Just as Samson’s father desired to be obedient and desired an accompanying instruction manual at the outset of the Lord’s directive, we, too, desire all the answers when God sets us on a new path, in a new season or in a new dimension.
But I’ve learned that God doesn’t usually give us all the answers in the beginning. Rather our levels of faith and obedience are tested at the outset and throughout the journey, moment by moment, choice by choice.
As we read in verse 4, the angel of the Lord warns Samson’s mother to “be careful,” and later in verse 14, He again warns her to “observe all that I commanded.” These directives are key.
The angel warns her to be careful because He knows the enemy, who knows her weaknesses, will try to tempt her into partial obedience, or disobedience. And He uses the word “all” to reiterate careful obedience because this high calling would not only change their status from married without children to parents, it would affect nations. In other words, God’s plan wasn’t just about them.
Like Sampson’s parents, will we be carefully obedient in God’s extraordinary callings, even though we do not have all the answers? Indeed, God is in the unknown. If we remain in Him throughout the journeys He sets us upon, especially when we do not fully understand, God is greatly honored, and we are privileged to enable His purpose sacrificially. If however, we choose disobedience, the wages of sin are death, and although we are forgiven, we suffer consequences.
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