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Judges chapter 14 verses 1 through 3.

Samson went down to Timna and at Timna he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines

Then he came up and told his father and mother I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timna now get her for me as my wife

But his father and mother said to him is there not a woman among the daughter get her for me as my wife.

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 uncircumsized Philistines?

But Sampson said to his father,

Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.

This phrase at the end of this passage is such a dangerous phrase and we see it

throughout the book of judges. People doing what is right in their eyes.

For Samson here, this is the beginning

of blatant sin against God and His word that will unfortunately mark much of

Samson's life and it's mysterious how one who was empowered by God's spirit in certain ways was still prone to sin in other ways.

I remember reading what one author wrote he said

Spirit given power in one dimension of life does not by itself a guaranteed

spirit impelled discipline and maturity in every dimension of life.

It follows that the presence of spiritual gifts is never an excuse for personal sin.

I think about this in my life and others lives around me

whom I love and even other leaders around me I just think about people who are gifted spiritually in different ways.

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