Pastor Eric preached an interesting message recently on the power that women have over men. I have never thought about this before. How that, when the serpent attacked the people in the garden he targeted Eve, knowing that she would get Adam to do what he knew was wrong. Adam did the deed, but Eve was deceived.
"And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression." 1Tim.2:14
If the serpent had come directly to Adam, Adam was strong and powerful and Adam would have easily conquered the serpent. A weak, fragile woman brought down her husband and in so doing affected the whole human race.
Pastor also mentioned Samson and Delilah. How the pretty, attractive, little woman destroyed the strongest man on Earth at the time. Pastor went into some details about this, but what spoke to me was how a petite but beautiful women brought down a strong but undisciplined man.
The good news is that Samson, in desperate circumstances, found God again. And he accomplished more in death than he ever accomplished in his self-centered life.
"Then Samson called to the Lord, saying, O Lord God, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!" Judges 16:28
"...So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life." Judges 16:30
We do not know what happened to Adam and Eve after Seth was born. They disappear from history, although they would have lived a long time. But Samson recovered enough to do something notable right up to the end of his life.
God, who brings light out of darkness and who brings life out of death, is able to do more than we can ask or even think.
Women have power over men, only when men fail to be men.
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