Scripture Union Daily Guide – 21st July 2025: Today’s Devotional Reading and Reflection
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TOPIC: The Unsearchable Ways of God
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OPENING PRAYER
May the meditation of my heart be acceptable unto you, O Lord as I read from your word.
BIBLE READING
Judges 14:1-20
14 Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.” 3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
4 His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring. 6 Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. 7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson’s eyes.
8 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9 He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.
10 His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do. 11 As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. 12 And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes, 13 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.” 14 And he said to them,
“Out of the eater came something to eat.
Out of the strong came something sweet.”
And in three days they could not solve the riddle.
15 On the fourth[a] day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?” 16 And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?” 17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle.”
19 And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house. 20 And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
QUESTIONS FOR MEDITATION
► Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
► Q2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
Scripture Union Daily Guide – 21st July 2025 OUTLINE
What will make Samson, “a Nazarite, dedicated to God from the womb,” blessed by the Lord, and a man who was already being used by the Holy Spirit (Judges 13:5,24-25) consider marrying a woman among the “pagan Philistines” (Judges 14:1-3; Deuteronomy 7:3)? Samson was careless with his life. He was not sensitive to the directions of God, though he was aware that his special strength was from God. He allowed his personal interest to interfere with the will of God for him. We must take our calling seriously, guard our hearts against lust and intimate relationships with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).
How do you understand Judges 14:4? It is important to clarify that even though God, sometimes outworks His purpose through a misbehaviour, ungodly decisions and outright sinful actions of individuals or people, that does not justify such actions as God’s will (Exodus 7:3;Exodus 14:4; Matthew 26:24). It is so unfortunate that instead of standing firm on God’s word, Samson’s parents conceded and followed him to marry the Philistine woman (Judges 14:5).
AND SO
Be not deceived: evil companionships corrupt good morals (1 Corinthians 15:33)!
INSIGHT
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
CLOSING PRAYER
May your word, dear Lord, and not my selfish desires always be my guide.
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Jonah 1-4.
One Year Bible Reading Plan – Hard Copy version
Hosea 8-14
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