Our text also shows that the Lord does not give up on his people, the Lord still guides our circumstances, and does great things for us, in spite of us. God delivers people who prefer to remain vengeful or enslaved. Samson’s weaknesses could not jeopardize God’s salvation plan. God mysteriously used this unworthy human agent to bring about his own ends: to one day bring the Saviour into the world.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.