06/23/2026
Yesterday I was reading through Judges, and honestly, one of my biggest takeaways is how little human nature has changed.
Generation after generation, people made the same mistakes. They forgot what God had done for them, drifted away, faced the consequences, cried out to Him, and then repeated the cycle all over again.
Then I got to Samson.
As I read, I kept thinking, "Why does he keep Delilah around when she's so clearly up to no good?" The warning signs were there. The patterns were there. Everyone reading the story can see it coming.
But then I realized how often we do the same thing.
Maybe it isn't a Delilah. Maybe it's our pride. Our ego. Our overconfidence. Maybe it's believing we're strong enough, smart enough, or successful enough that we don't need God's guidance quite as much as we used to.
Samson had incredible gifts, but somewhere along the way he started relying more on himself than the One who gave him those gifts. By the time the damage was done, it was too late to avoid the consequences.
Yet what amazes me is that God wasn't finished with him.
Even after the mistakes. Even after the pride. Even after the poor choices.
When Samson finally humbled himself and turned back to God, God was still there.
Maybe that's the lesson for all of us.
We're going to make mistakes. We're going to miss warning signs. We're going to have moments when we trust ourselves more than we trust God.
But the goal is to keep coming back. To stay humble. To lean into God instead of ourselves. To learn from our mistakes instead of repeating them.
Because if Judges teaches us anything, it's that history repeats itself. But it also reminds us that God's grace does too. 🧡
~ Olivia Prince
