Everyone wants a fairytale relationship, right? Handsome man rescues a beautiful woman, the two live happily-ever-after, ya-da, ya-da, ya-da. But I don’t know about you – I haven’t seen a whole lot of that going on in our society anymore. Every once in a great while, you meet a couple that is delightfully at peace, unified in purpose and desire, still in love with each other and living victoriously – but not nearly as frequently as God intended. We don’t even tend to see true friendships anymore. Why? As strange as it sounds, I think the answer lies embedded in the story of Samson and Delilah. As I was reading their story this week, I was really challenged. Instead of finding a familiar, though strange story, about a man whose life course seemed to be determined by every woman he met, I was confronted with weaknesses and tendencies I’ve noticed (and hated) in myself and other women seeking relational bliss with their spouses and their ...
Pressing in, not turning back, growing in faith, not growing slack, ... daring to be restless with anything less than God's best.