FAITH CAPSULE: Be conscious of the world you are living and leave no ground for entanglement.

Genesis 39, Judges 16

The world today is a battle field. The main enemy is constantly on a killer mode. His name is the wicked one and is here to devour by seeking to steal, to kill and to destroy. Without becoming an army of God it is failure to engage the battles of this world. Are you an army of God? If you are an army of God; an acclaimed believer the Word of God warns, “No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” (2Timothy 2:4) God called you for a purpose and qualified you for a divine assignment. Samson is a considerable soldier for God. Samson was enticed and he entangled with Delilah. Samson’s entanglement with Delilah’s enticement exposed him to eventual termination from life. It is written, “And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”(Judges 16:5-6) The lords of the Philistines used Delilah to entice Samson for the revelation of his God’s secret for his divine assignment.
Joseph purposely refused to entangle with the world. The Bible recorded how his master’s wife operated as an agent for the wicked in her attempt to terminate Joseph from living to fulfill his divine assignment. It is written, “So it was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with her.” (Genesis 39:10) Enticement failed to work for his master’s wife when Joseph refused to become entangled with the affairs of this life. Without doubt, persistency is also the enemy’s weapon and that is meant to bring man down. With Samson, after three failed attempts, Delilah “…pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death, that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.” (Judges 16:16-17) Unlike Joseph, Samson succumbs to enemy’s persistence for his entanglement. Be conscious of the world you are living and leave no ground for entanglement.
Prayer for today: Ask God that those who seek to destroy you should go into the lower parts of the earth.