DESTINY DESTROYERS
Everyone that is born of God has a divine destiny. You are not an accidental discharge. When we talk about destiny in the biblical parlance, we are not referring to the African concept of Ori (head). We are not at all talking about the Yoruba concept of ipin or ayanmo. We are not thinking in terms of Islamic fatalism all of which says that everything about a man whether good or bad has already been predetermined by God and nothing can change it. No. By destiny we are talking in terms of the inner purpose of a man than can be discovered and realized. We are basing our premise on the fact that God created man for a purpose, created him in his good image and when God created him, everything was perfect. We are talking in terms of the fact that God’s thought towards his own are thoughts of good and not of evil to give them a future and a hope, an expected end.
But man is a rational being. However good God’s thought and intent is for him, if he doesn’t cooperate with God and follow divine rules for fulfillment in life, he is bound to fail. And that is why we want to take a look at destiny destroyers. For our study to be meaningful and focused, we will just use the life of a man in the scriptures for our case study and see what lessons God wants us to learn. Let us learn from Samsom.
Samson a Man of Destiny
Samson was a unique man. He was a product of prayers, sacrifices and God’s divine intervention. His birth was announced by angels, his consecration was from the womb and his divine mandate was announced even before his birth. O! he had a great beginning. Not many of us had such privileged beginning even though God has a purpose for all of us. For him to be fully devoted to that purpose, he was consecrated a Nazarite. From the law of a Nazarite in Numbers 6:1-8 the following restrictions are placed on such people.
No drinking of wine or anything related to the grapevine
No razor should come on his head
He shall be holy
He shall not come near dead body
Apart from been mandated to follow the laws of a Nazarite (Judges 13:7), his assignment were clearly stated in Judges 13:5
…And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.'' Deliverance of Israel out of the hand of the Philistine is the life purpose statement of Samson. Anytime you see him killing a Philistine, he is simply fulfilling his divine destiny. And so he started well. He dealt with the Philistines as much as he could. Even when in Chapter 14 of Judges he went to seek for the hand of a Philistine daughter at Timnah, and the parents opposed it, the Bible said in verse 4,
But his father and mother did not know that it was of the Lord that He was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.So it was a deliberate move and at the end of the whole drama, many philistines went for it. At first he killed thirty men to get a change of cloth for the riddle he lost (14:19). Later in Chapter 15:8, it was a “great slaughter.” By the time we get to verse 15, he got a fresh jawbone of a donkey and killed another 1000 Philistines. He also set their farmland ablaze along the way (vrs 4-5).
For each of the outings, the heavens backed him up. In fact Judges 13:24-25 says
and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move upon him.
The Holy Spirit was on hand to empower him against each of the enemies that arose including a lion that came across his way. Even when he was tied with a rope the Spirit came on him and broke the bond to loose him to fight his enemies.
What looks like a peak of his ministry was what we found in Judges 15:18-20
Then he became very thirsty; so he cried out to the Lord and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant; and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?'' So God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out, and he drank; and his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he called its name En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day. And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
Heavens responded to Samson’s cry and revived his Spirit in confirmation of the fact that he was on divine mission. Then came this conclusion: And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines. This is often the way the story of each judges at that time was concluded. (See Judges 3:11, 30; 5:31; 8:28; 12:7, 9, 11, 14).
It would have been great if Samson’s story ended here as it apparently ended with other Judges. But Samson’s story didn’t end in Chapter 15. Why then this kind of anticlimax? Why try to conclude his story before the real conclusion. The problem is that from the next chapter, Samson began to destroy his own destiny. Though we would see some traces before this point but the obvious manifestation came up in chapter 16.
Samson and Destiny Destroyers
We will enumerate just six but anyone who tow the path of these six destiny destroyers is on the way to wastage and anyone who is able to overcome these six will surely fulfill his destiny.
Disobedience
Obedience is what keeps you in permanent touch with God. It is what makes you hear divine instruction, act on it and get the blessing that follows. The scripture has said if you will be willing and obedient you will eat the good of the land. Men who eat the good of the land are men of density. But first they are men of obedience. Samson became disobedient to the heavenly vision (in contrast to Paul in Act 26:19). What are the evidences of his disobedience?
First he broke the law of the Nazarite by touching the carcass of the lion he killed to get scoop honey to eat. Number 6:6 stipulated that he shall not come near a dead body. Perhaps that was why he did not tell his parents the source of the honey (Judges 14:9).
Secondly he began to go out with a prostitute. The law of the Nazarite says in Numbers 6:8
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.
Samson forgot the tenets and demands of holiness and began to go out with not just any other girl, but a prostitute. Even if the first attempt to marry of Philistine daughter was a divine arrangement to kill some number of Philistines, going to sleep in a harlot house at Gaza and later Delilah at the valley of Sorek was a flagrant disobedience to God’s law. He did it and he missed it.
Disobedience is a great enemy of destiny. The moment a man cannot listen to God and strictly obey whatever commands he gives to him and whatever it cost, that man is on the path of destruction. And funnily enough he may not know that he is gradually going. Even when Samson was in a harlot’s house, he was still so powerful that when the enemies came to attack him, he could get hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two gateposts, pull them up, bar and all, put them on his shoulders, and carry them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron. The fact that things are going on well for you now does not mean that God’s presence is still with you. You are gradually dying off!
Carelessness
Samson became a careless man. He kept putting on this nonchalant attitude of “who will catch me?.” Does it really matter? Is it not just eating honey from a dead lion I killed some days ago? And see the worst demonstration of his carelessness when he was in Delilah’s house. In Judges 16:7-17 he kept playing with Delilah until he gradually revealed the secret of his power. See the progression of his foolishness:
…bind me with seven fresh bowstrings
…bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used,
…weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom''
Until finally
…If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.''
Ah! This man finished himself so swiftly because he was careless with God’s grace and anointing upon his life. The exigency of sleeping on a woman’s lap was for him more important that the great destiny God has committed to him. It was like the story of Esau. For him the hunger and the food he wanted from Jacob was more important that his birthright. In fact Gen 25:34 puts it this way
And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.A careless man, he ate the food, despised his birthright and went his way. Now see when he came back to his senses. Heb 13 says
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.Are you careless, then you must be playing with your destiny. Men that fulfill their destiny are men that take God and their life serious and give it all the attention it demands.
Immorality
Though we have talked much about this under the past two destiny destroyers, let me still make some emphasis here. Immorality is a subtle destroyer. Samson perhaps did not know much about this (or as we have earlier observed was just careless) until he was completely trapped. There are some thoughts that should come to our minds.
- Why did he not marry a woman out rightly and settle down?
- Why does he prefer foreign and strange women to his own people, the Hebrews?
- Why would he toil with the secrets of his anointing while on a dangerous woman’s lap – even when several attempts were made on his life. Was he charmed?
The problems with a man or woman who has given himself or herself to immorality are these:
- Since it is one of the strongest temptations that is attached to your emotion, once you fall for it, it is often difficult to get out of it. It is a vicious circle.
- Immorality destroys the body which ought to be the temple of the Holy Spirit and God’s promise is to destroy those who destroy his temple (I Cor 3:16-17)
- Immorality connects you and makes you one with the person you sleep with. You connect with his or he destiny. You connect with his or her diseases, curses or whatever covenant is upon his or her head. In the occult and demonic world, when they want to initiate, or out rightly ruin the life of a man or woman, one of the easiest ways to go about it is to get him/her into sexual relationship (physically and at times in the dream). Sex touches beyond the organs of a human being. Sex touches your life – your real life, your essence, your destiny, your future and before you know what happens your eternity. No wonder Proverbs 2:16-19 says wisdom will
deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead; none who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life Those who engage in sexual immorality are on the path of death. They are on a journey of no return. They never regain the path of life.
Sex is a great destroyer of destiny. Hophni and Phineas ended their ministry abruptly and lost their lives on the same day, followed by their father and Phineas’ wife. David got more than he bargained for after sleeping with Uriah’s wife. Reuben was cursed by his father and he lost his birthright. We can continue to count the cost. The pleasure is not worth the punishment at all!!!
Lack of Spirituality
Samson doesn’t seem to count spirituality as an issue. Those basic things that needed to be seen in the life of a spiritual leader were obviously lacking in a Judge that had four chapters dedicated to his story. Those basic things like prayer, fasting, spiritual mobilization of the people for repentance and trust in God etc. He was a man that just wakes up and does whatever he feels like doing. More importantly he looked like a reactive person rather than a proactive. The only two places I saw him pray was when he was in a tight corner. The first is in Judges 16:18 when he was thirsty to the point of death and in Judges 16:28 when he prayed for the power to avenge his enemies for his eyes that were removed. No prayer of devotion, none of repentance – he just continued to survive on grace until he destroyed himself.
We are created in the image of God and we carry the breath of God who is a spirit. An unspiritual man cannot connect with God to fulfill his divine destiny. He will live a miserable and unfulfilling life. Romans 8:4-8 says
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
If you must make it according to God’s will you must be spiritual.
Solitude and Selfishness
Samson was a general without a troop. He trained nobody, raised no army and left no disciple. He did it all alone. I didn’t know how much he accomplished with this but it could never have been the same if he had more people fighting along side with him. Selfishness is a great destiny destroyer. When you think the world is for you alone and you just don’t want to relate with others, connect with others, rub your life on other and share with other, you will achieve little of nothing. The Bible talked about a city called Laish. Judges 18:7 says they were far from the Sidonians, and they had no ties with anyone. When the Danites came to attack them, verses 27-28 says they
went to Laish, to a people who were quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire. There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no ties with anyone
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 explains the power of relationship this way:
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one be warm alone? Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Samson fought alone, was captured alone without resistance and died alone (he was the only Hebrew in that hall at least). Interestingly after judging Israel for 20 years, it was only his brothers and all his father’s household that came to pick his dead body up. (Judges 16:31). Where were the whole Israelites?
Men of destiny are connectors. They cherish relationships and they ride of the wings of relationship. Their lives are like candles who loses nothing by lighting other candles. Be a connector. Build up friends, raise disciples and mentees. Train people, delegate. There is a great height for you up there.
Indulgence/laziness
We must not end without mentioning this. What is a leader and a judge of the whole Israel doing in odd places like a harlot house and on the laps of a woman for several hours and days until his enemies caught up with him? It shows a sign of indulgence and laziness. Men of destiny are men hat are busy with whatever their hands find doing. They don’t have time to waste. They work around the clock to make the most of the day and achieve as much as they can within the space of time and life given unto them. Laziness, loafing around and idleness are destiny destroyers. When you are idle, the devil gives you assignment. That was what almost finished David if not for the mercy of God.
The End of Samson
It was a bad one. He was captured by the Philistines, his eyes were removed and he became a grinder in the prison. He brought celebration for the god called Dagon and he became an entertainer at the temple of Dagon. What a painful way to end it. What a terrible way to terminate a destiny.
Everyone of us must watch our lives right now. Where are you heading to? God has great plans for you, he has endowed you with life and with various gifts and graces to make you fulfill your destiny. Which of these destiny destroyers are you entertaining? It is better to check now because the end will not be palatable. Repent now because you have the chance. Samson didn’t really, until he was captured.
And may be you are already down. You have used your own hands to destroy your destiny, then I want to announce to you that God can still help you. He can put the bit and peaces of your life together since you are not yet dead. The interesting thing about Samson is that his hair grew again. Your hair of power and anointing can also grow again. It was unfortunate that Samson did not see a reason to live again. He demanded to die with the Philistines. You don’t need to die. You can still live the rest of your life for God. Rise up, repent and come to him. There is hope for you.
But man is a rational being. However good God’s thought and intent is for him, if he doesn’t cooperate with God and follow divine rules for fulfillment in life, he is bound to fail. And that is why we want to take a look at destiny destroyers. For our study to be meaningful and focused, we will just use the life of a man in the scriptures for our case study and see what lessons God wants us to learn. Let us learn from Samsom.
Samson a Man of Destiny
Samson was a unique man. He was a product of prayers, sacrifices and God’s divine intervention. His birth was announced by angels, his consecration was from the womb and his divine mandate was announced even before his birth. O! he had a great beginning. Not many of us had such privileged beginning even though God has a purpose for all of us. For him to be fully devoted to that purpose, he was consecrated a Nazarite. From the law of a Nazarite in Numbers 6:1-8 the following restrictions are placed on such people.
No drinking of wine or anything related to the grapevine
No razor should come on his head
He shall be holy
He shall not come near dead body
Apart from been mandated to follow the laws of a Nazarite (Judges 13:7), his assignment were clearly stated in Judges 13:5
…And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.'' Deliverance of Israel out of the hand of the Philistine is the life purpose statement of Samson. Anytime you see him killing a Philistine, he is simply fulfilling his divine destiny. And so he started well. He dealt with the Philistines as much as he could. Even when in Chapter 14 of Judges he went to seek for the hand of a Philistine daughter at Timnah, and the parents opposed it, the Bible said in verse 4,
But his father and mother did not know that it was of the Lord that He was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.So it was a deliberate move and at the end of the whole drama, many philistines went for it. At first he killed thirty men to get a change of cloth for the riddle he lost (14:19). Later in Chapter 15:8, it was a “great slaughter.” By the time we get to verse 15, he got a fresh jawbone of a donkey and killed another 1000 Philistines. He also set their farmland ablaze along the way (vrs 4-5).
For each of the outings, the heavens backed him up. In fact Judges 13:24-25 says
and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move upon him.
The Holy Spirit was on hand to empower him against each of the enemies that arose including a lion that came across his way. Even when he was tied with a rope the Spirit came on him and broke the bond to loose him to fight his enemies.
What looks like a peak of his ministry was what we found in Judges 15:18-20
Then he became very thirsty; so he cried out to the Lord and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant; and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?'' So God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out, and he drank; and his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he called its name En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day. And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
Heavens responded to Samson’s cry and revived his Spirit in confirmation of the fact that he was on divine mission. Then came this conclusion: And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines. This is often the way the story of each judges at that time was concluded. (See Judges 3:11, 30; 5:31; 8:28; 12:7, 9, 11, 14).
It would have been great if Samson’s story ended here as it apparently ended with other Judges. But Samson’s story didn’t end in Chapter 15. Why then this kind of anticlimax? Why try to conclude his story before the real conclusion. The problem is that from the next chapter, Samson began to destroy his own destiny. Though we would see some traces before this point but the obvious manifestation came up in chapter 16.
Samson and Destiny Destroyers
We will enumerate just six but anyone who tow the path of these six destiny destroyers is on the way to wastage and anyone who is able to overcome these six will surely fulfill his destiny.
Disobedience
Obedience is what keeps you in permanent touch with God. It is what makes you hear divine instruction, act on it and get the blessing that follows. The scripture has said if you will be willing and obedient you will eat the good of the land. Men who eat the good of the land are men of density. But first they are men of obedience. Samson became disobedient to the heavenly vision (in contrast to Paul in Act 26:19). What are the evidences of his disobedience?
First he broke the law of the Nazarite by touching the carcass of the lion he killed to get scoop honey to eat. Number 6:6 stipulated that he shall not come near a dead body. Perhaps that was why he did not tell his parents the source of the honey (Judges 14:9).
Secondly he began to go out with a prostitute. The law of the Nazarite says in Numbers 6:8
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.
Samson forgot the tenets and demands of holiness and began to go out with not just any other girl, but a prostitute. Even if the first attempt to marry of Philistine daughter was a divine arrangement to kill some number of Philistines, going to sleep in a harlot house at Gaza and later Delilah at the valley of Sorek was a flagrant disobedience to God’s law. He did it and he missed it.
Disobedience is a great enemy of destiny. The moment a man cannot listen to God and strictly obey whatever commands he gives to him and whatever it cost, that man is on the path of destruction. And funnily enough he may not know that he is gradually going. Even when Samson was in a harlot’s house, he was still so powerful that when the enemies came to attack him, he could get hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two gateposts, pull them up, bar and all, put them on his shoulders, and carry them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron. The fact that things are going on well for you now does not mean that God’s presence is still with you. You are gradually dying off!
Carelessness
Samson became a careless man. He kept putting on this nonchalant attitude of “who will catch me?.” Does it really matter? Is it not just eating honey from a dead lion I killed some days ago? And see the worst demonstration of his carelessness when he was in Delilah’s house. In Judges 16:7-17 he kept playing with Delilah until he gradually revealed the secret of his power. See the progression of his foolishness:
…bind me with seven fresh bowstrings
…bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used,
…weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom''
Until finally
…If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.''
Ah! This man finished himself so swiftly because he was careless with God’s grace and anointing upon his life. The exigency of sleeping on a woman’s lap was for him more important that the great destiny God has committed to him. It was like the story of Esau. For him the hunger and the food he wanted from Jacob was more important that his birthright. In fact Gen 25:34 puts it this way
And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.A careless man, he ate the food, despised his birthright and went his way. Now see when he came back to his senses. Heb 13 says
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.Are you careless, then you must be playing with your destiny. Men that fulfill their destiny are men that take God and their life serious and give it all the attention it demands.
Immorality
Though we have talked much about this under the past two destiny destroyers, let me still make some emphasis here. Immorality is a subtle destroyer. Samson perhaps did not know much about this (or as we have earlier observed was just careless) until he was completely trapped. There are some thoughts that should come to our minds.
- Why did he not marry a woman out rightly and settle down?
- Why does he prefer foreign and strange women to his own people, the Hebrews?
- Why would he toil with the secrets of his anointing while on a dangerous woman’s lap – even when several attempts were made on his life. Was he charmed?
The problems with a man or woman who has given himself or herself to immorality are these:
- Since it is one of the strongest temptations that is attached to your emotion, once you fall for it, it is often difficult to get out of it. It is a vicious circle.
- Immorality destroys the body which ought to be the temple of the Holy Spirit and God’s promise is to destroy those who destroy his temple (I Cor 3:16-17)
- Immorality connects you and makes you one with the person you sleep with. You connect with his or he destiny. You connect with his or her diseases, curses or whatever covenant is upon his or her head. In the occult and demonic world, when they want to initiate, or out rightly ruin the life of a man or woman, one of the easiest ways to go about it is to get him/her into sexual relationship (physically and at times in the dream). Sex touches beyond the organs of a human being. Sex touches your life – your real life, your essence, your destiny, your future and before you know what happens your eternity. No wonder Proverbs 2:16-19 says wisdom will
deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead; none who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life Those who engage in sexual immorality are on the path of death. They are on a journey of no return. They never regain the path of life.
Sex is a great destroyer of destiny. Hophni and Phineas ended their ministry abruptly and lost their lives on the same day, followed by their father and Phineas’ wife. David got more than he bargained for after sleeping with Uriah’s wife. Reuben was cursed by his father and he lost his birthright. We can continue to count the cost. The pleasure is not worth the punishment at all!!!
Lack of Spirituality
Samson doesn’t seem to count spirituality as an issue. Those basic things that needed to be seen in the life of a spiritual leader were obviously lacking in a Judge that had four chapters dedicated to his story. Those basic things like prayer, fasting, spiritual mobilization of the people for repentance and trust in God etc. He was a man that just wakes up and does whatever he feels like doing. More importantly he looked like a reactive person rather than a proactive. The only two places I saw him pray was when he was in a tight corner. The first is in Judges 16:18 when he was thirsty to the point of death and in Judges 16:28 when he prayed for the power to avenge his enemies for his eyes that were removed. No prayer of devotion, none of repentance – he just continued to survive on grace until he destroyed himself.
We are created in the image of God and we carry the breath of God who is a spirit. An unspiritual man cannot connect with God to fulfill his divine destiny. He will live a miserable and unfulfilling life. Romans 8:4-8 says
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
If you must make it according to God’s will you must be spiritual.
Solitude and Selfishness
Samson was a general without a troop. He trained nobody, raised no army and left no disciple. He did it all alone. I didn’t know how much he accomplished with this but it could never have been the same if he had more people fighting along side with him. Selfishness is a great destiny destroyer. When you think the world is for you alone and you just don’t want to relate with others, connect with others, rub your life on other and share with other, you will achieve little of nothing. The Bible talked about a city called Laish. Judges 18:7 says they were far from the Sidonians, and they had no ties with anyone. When the Danites came to attack them, verses 27-28 says they
went to Laish, to a people who were quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire. There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no ties with anyone
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 explains the power of relationship this way:
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one be warm alone? Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Samson fought alone, was captured alone without resistance and died alone (he was the only Hebrew in that hall at least). Interestingly after judging Israel for 20 years, it was only his brothers and all his father’s household that came to pick his dead body up. (Judges 16:31). Where were the whole Israelites?
Men of destiny are connectors. They cherish relationships and they ride of the wings of relationship. Their lives are like candles who loses nothing by lighting other candles. Be a connector. Build up friends, raise disciples and mentees. Train people, delegate. There is a great height for you up there.
Indulgence/laziness
We must not end without mentioning this. What is a leader and a judge of the whole Israel doing in odd places like a harlot house and on the laps of a woman for several hours and days until his enemies caught up with him? It shows a sign of indulgence and laziness. Men of destiny are men hat are busy with whatever their hands find doing. They don’t have time to waste. They work around the clock to make the most of the day and achieve as much as they can within the space of time and life given unto them. Laziness, loafing around and idleness are destiny destroyers. When you are idle, the devil gives you assignment. That was what almost finished David if not for the mercy of God.
The End of Samson
It was a bad one. He was captured by the Philistines, his eyes were removed and he became a grinder in the prison. He brought celebration for the god called Dagon and he became an entertainer at the temple of Dagon. What a painful way to end it. What a terrible way to terminate a destiny.
Everyone of us must watch our lives right now. Where are you heading to? God has great plans for you, he has endowed you with life and with various gifts and graces to make you fulfill your destiny. Which of these destiny destroyers are you entertaining? It is better to check now because the end will not be palatable. Repent now because you have the chance. Samson didn’t really, until he was captured.
And may be you are already down. You have used your own hands to destroy your destiny, then I want to announce to you that God can still help you. He can put the bit and peaces of your life together since you are not yet dead. The interesting thing about Samson is that his hair grew again. Your hair of power and anointing can also grow again. It was unfortunate that Samson did not see a reason to live again. He demanded to die with the Philistines. You don’t need to die. You can still live the rest of your life for God. Rise up, repent and come to him. There is hope for you.
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