Question 5

Do you ever get in the way of God? How can you place "your" plans/life aside so God can move in and give you "real life"?

Question 4

Have you ever been so far from God that you didn't even know that "God had left"? Or that you have actually left God? I love how she tells the story of how Samson was not only down, but beaten, tortured and then abused some more. I feel like this is what the devil does to us. I could totally relate to how Samson felt spiritually in this turmoil. But then Shelia says "he is still a child of God". Have you ever experienced as spiritually devastating as this?

Question 3

Why don't we just give into God? Especially when we have to run back to him because we have gotten to so far, then right when we feel close to God we run away again. Why don't we just stay with him?

question 2

God's ways require more of us then choosing our way. We have to trust him and his guidance which usually is unseen. Other then prayer and Study are their other ways you have found to to stick with God and leave yourself?

Question 1

When Samson wondered into the land of the Philistines he made the choice to trust what HE saw rather then what GOD saw. In what ways do you do this? Are you choosing daily to depend on God or depend on what you see?

Chapter 10 discussion

This was an interesting chapter to me. I liked what Shelia brought up about how even though Samson was continually avoiding and ignoring his calling God's spirit still came upon him. I think the devil tells me in my life that if I keep ignoring God's leading God will try and go lead someone else to his gift for me. But this chapter reminds me that this is not true... God still wants for us what he has planned for us all along!

Question 4

God remembers us... he doesn't forget us... he sees us all the time. This was an encouraging thought to me as I read. I need to remember to trust his guidance to whatever is His ultimate goal in my life. Do you feel God leading you or do you feel as if he has forgotten you?