Then on Saturday at RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly we are having our 2nd Annual Health and Community Information Day with food, and lots of great information and free health screenings, HIV/Hep C testing, acupuncture and a chiropractor! Don't miss it!!****
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/20/13 - Loving You is Killing Me
"Some time later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the valley of Sorek. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, 'Entice Samson to tell you what makes him so strong and how he can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each of us will give you 1,100 pieces of silver.'" Judges 16:4-5 NLT
One of the realities of living this new way of life is that we want someone to share it with. The problem is that too many of us get into relationships before we a healed enough to handle them and end up in either the wrong one or sadly enough the right one just at the wrong time. We end up either being victims or victimizing all over again or we just end up obsessed with someone in such a way that we take our eyes off God and our relationship with Him and end up attempting to replace our reliance on Jesus with this other person.
In our text we find the story of Samson who was a judge over Israel in the days before it was ruled by a king. One of his many talents is his superhuman strength, but he appears weak when it comes to the woman he falls in love with. He is unfortunately in love with someone who manipulates him and attempts to destroy him for her own selfish greed. He is a man chosen by God to lead that lets a bad relationship destroy him.
Unfortunately many of us make the same choice. Rather than wait on God for the right one at the right time, we compromise and settle for folk who are not good for us or for our relationship with God or our recovery OR we mess up potentially good relationships by turning them into hostageships and neglecting our spirituality that way. Either way this new "love" is killing us spiritually. It's time to let it and them go and allow God to work on us until we are mature enough to be in a relationship and still maintain a healthy balance in our lives.
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