What Is Your Price?

The tabernacle in the wilderness that we all know is a symbol of Jesus Christ in many, many ways, is described as having brass fixtures and parts all over it. You can read about them all through the Book of Exodus and other.

The brass, as a part of Jesus’ description, symbolizes his pure, holy and righteous judgment.

In Samson’s life, and in the life of all sinners, the brass fetters that hold them in prison, is the judgment of God for the sin in their lives. Samson couldn’t break these fetters because God wasn’t with him there in his sin. Neither will you be able to break free from the sin that binds you once it has you in its prison.

The wonderful thing about this story is that God still had plans for Samson even though he had failed so miserably and wound up bound by sin.

Judges 16:22 gives us a great hope, “Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.”

Even in the prisons of sin, bound by the fetters of brass and God’s judgment for sin, there is still hope, if we will allow the Holy Spirit to draw us back again.

As Samson’s hair began to grow, symbolizing his coming back to the place of his consecration and promises to God, so did the hope of deliverance begin to arise in his heart. Though he could not see with his natural eyes, Samson could see things more clearly now, than he ever could before, and he knew that God was his only hope.

I hope and pray that all of us will never forget that lesson. I hope that we never have to go to the depths that Samson did before we turn back.

If we will just turn back to God, renewing our vows to Him, and repenting of our sin, and allow God to come back and clean out our heart, then we too can see the victory one more time.