The Anointing and Self-Caution

 In today’s topic, we will be learning from a character in the scripture. This character is Samson, a judge anointed by God to be a deliverer for the children of Israel.

The Bible records in the Book of Judges, chapters 13 through 16, that Samson was one of the very rare persons anointed from birth. He was ordained by God to save Israel from the dominion of the Philistines.

In order for him to accomplish his calling, he had to be set apart from every other person through certain instructions given to his parents by the angel who announced his birth to ensure that the anointing on his life was sustained and not cut short, as seen in Judges 3:5, “For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Samson didn’t cut his hair, but he also didn’t keep to the commandments of God that ruled the Israelites then. He ate from the carcass of a lion, he had companionship with a harlot in Gaza, and finally, loved Delilah; the Philistinian woman that pressed him with words till he revealed the source of his strength, and furthermore brought him to his death.

You see a quality every of God’s anointed must possess is self-caution. Without self-caution, though anointed, the devil will strike and overcome. We must refuse to be insensitive and disobedient as Samson was, we must protect the calling of God upon our lives in so as not to fail of the grace and calling of God on our lives.

The devil’s target for a believer is to ensure that that believer falls and doesn’t fulfil his/her God-given purpose. You must learn to possess the quality of self-caution as a believer, therein is safety for you against the tactics of the enemy.