The massive freight train of God's agenda - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing,
majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of
him and what came to my mind and heart in Judges 14:6a,

"The Spirit of the Lord came upon him [Samson] in power so that he
tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young
goat."

Samson was en route to get himself a wife from the Philistines. His
parents were with him but when he was apparently separated from them
temporarily, a lion attacked him. The passage is careful to note the
lion was young so we can conclude this was not an old lion with
missing teeth and worn claws, past his prime, but a young, virile lion
at the peak of his strength.

It is noted in the previous chapter that the Spirit of the Lord had
already began to stir in Samson, 13:25, and that his affair of
fetching a wife from the Philistines was the Lord's doing, 14:4. The
Lord had decided to use Samson to free Israel from Philistine rule and
when the lion attacked Samson, the "Spirit of the Lord" came upon him,
providing him the power, speed and strength to overcome the lion. As
most things the Lord does, it wasn't what we might call a slight
whooping of the lion: Samson tore the lion to shreds, "as he might
have torn a young goat". With this episode we are introduced to just
how the Lord was going to utilize Samson to free Israel.

Taking a step back from the story, the view is of a man who has been
sent on a mission by God. The man is equipped by God, and although
threats come his way, it is a given he will prevail until God's
objective is accomplished. Such is the nature of God's agenda. God's
plans, God's purposes, God's agenda is impossible to be thwarted,
nothing can stop it and the outcome will always and inevitably be
realized. Nothing on planet earth, not the most intelligent, not the
strongest, not the most technologically advanced can even slow, let
alone stop the massive freight train of God's agenda. God's purposes
are indomitable, invulnerable, unbeatable, unconquerable, invincible,
insurmountable, impregnable and insuperable. Nothing can stand in the
path of God's purposes, nothing in the spiritual realm, nothing in
heaven, nothing on earth.

As God speaks the word, it is as good as done. I am reminded of one of
my favorite verses that speaks to this reality, "As the rain and the
snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering
the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for
the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my
mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I
desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:10-11.

Woe to the man who is confused on this!

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share
what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to
hear from you!

Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com