THE POWER OF LUST

Judg 16:15-16
Then she said to him, " How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is." 16 It came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.
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** Oh the power of a woman! Many many men throughout the bible and in history have fallen, given up kingdoms, lost everything even their lives over the power of lust and sex. Great men, who are wise and have seen the past and the sexual faults of other great men, fall into the hands of lust.
As I read thru this story of Samson once again, I still am amazed at how struck he was over this one woman. Will it ever change? I don’t think so. Men will still struggle and be tempted again and again and we will fall time after time because we have no idea how to control that desire of lust that dwells deep inside of us. Paul made a statement that clearly describes this: “the things I want to do, I don’t do and the things I don’t want to do, I end up doing. Who will deliver me from this body of death?”Often times I feel this very same way. However Paul finishes by saying “but thanks be to God thru Jesus Christ my Lord.”