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When You Think You're Out of Options—the Word of God Says<br />
You're Not<br />
easily, crying and pouting until she got Samson to<br />
reveal to her the secret of his strength: his vow to God.<br />
Samson's vow was symbolized by not cutting his hair<br />
but allowing it to grow in seven locks. As Samson lay<br />
asleep in Delilah's arms, she was able to cut off his hair.<br />
Then the alarm sounded inside him. Samson awoke<br />
knowing his vow had been broken. He felt the power of<br />
God leave him, and for the first time, he could not repel<br />
the attack of the Philistines.<br />
The Philistines took Samson, gouged out his eyes,<br />
and hooked him up in the place of a mule to grind at the<br />
mill of their god, Dagon.<br />
Round and round and round he went, grinding at<br />
the mill day after day, his sight gone, his vow shattered,<br />
his God-given strength gone, his dream gone, the hopes<br />
of his people gone. Everything... gone.<br />
One hot day he was grinding at the mill, sweating,<br />
hurting, bound to the mill wheel with brass fetters, out<br />
of options, when he felt something on the nape of his<br />
neck. His hair! It was growing again! He had been<br />
shaven by the Philistines, stripped of the one thing that<br />
indicated his vow to God. But the Philistines hadn't<br />
counted on the obvious fact that Samson's hair would<br />
grow again. There...just a wisp of hair touching the back<br />
of his neck. And Samson began to believe again. He felt<br />
the Spirit of God moving in his spirit. "It's God," he cried.<br />
"God is giving me a second chance!"<br />
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