The strongest man in the Bible had to learn the reality of his own weakness and the true source of strength.

Today we learn spiritual truths from the life of Samson.

Let's join Scott Pauli now as we journey through the Word of God.

Sometime back, a very kind, gracious Christian woman stayed after a particular meeting to speak with me for a moment.

And with tears, she said, I don't know what's wrong with me.

She said, I've been seeking the Lord, growing in my faith, learning more about him.

And she said, it seems like the more I grow and mature in the Lord,

the more wicked my own heart is. And I said to her, your heart is not getting more wicked.

You're just beginning to see how truly wicked and weak your heart is. You see, the nearer you get

to God, the more you see him and the more you see you.

The more it begins to reveal your weakness and his strength, your sinfulness and his holiness,

your inability and his sufficiency. And in fact, it's a wonderful place to be.

I said to our friend, congratulations. The Lord's doing something wonderful in your life.

She looked at me a little puzzled, and maybe you're puzzled today because you feel like you're getting

nearer to God, but you're seeing how truly incapable you are. Hudson Taylor said as he grew nearer to

God, he said, I never knew how bad a heart I had. Well, I'm going to tell you, that's really what God's doing in all of our lives,

as he brings us nearer to himself, is to reveal our great need.

We're studying the life of Samson in Judges 15,

and we've learned in this story of him almost dying of thirst,

that everyone has need.

Listen to the story again. The Bible says in judges 15, verse 18,

and he was sore thirst, and called on the Lord and said, thou hast given this great deliverance

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