Need Love
Delilah is the personification of dangerous love. For all my life I've heard about her danger but Tim Keller really brought out for me what the main issue was for Samson concerning this woman who would become his undoing. The whole narrative is bracketed by terms rooted in the concept of infatuated love. Even from the beginning, it says: Judges 16:4 (ESV) After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. Samson just got away with a sexual episode with a prostitute in the capital city of Gaza. But that was just casual sex, Delilah is what Samson considers a loving relationship. You get the feeling that her entrance into his was life primed by the casual encounter in the first place. Samson needs the love of Delilah. Judges 16:5 (ESV) And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we wi...