PIDGIN ITS NOT OVER!

Judges 16:4-31 “ Afta sometaim, Samson kon love one woman wey en name na Delilah, wey dey stay for Sorek Valley. 5 All di five rulers for Filistia go meet Delilah kon sey, “Make yu deceive Samson, so dat e go tell yu wetin make am dey strong and how dem fit take stop am. Den yu go find way take tie am with rope well-well. Afta evritin, each of us go give yu 1,000 one hundred silva.”

6 So Delilah go meet Samson kon tell, “Abeg, make yu tell mi, ‘Wetin make yu dey strong like dis and wetin pesin go fit do, if e won tie yu?’ ”

7 Den Samson ansa, “If dem tie mi with seven new strong rope wey nor dry, I go dey weak well-well.”

8 So Filistia rulers bring seven new strong rope kon give Delilah, den e use am take tie Samson. 9By dat time, Delilah hide some men for di oda room, den e shaut, “Samson! Filistia pipol don kom katch yu o-o!” But Samson kut di rope, just as tread dey kut if yu take fire tosh am. So dem nor still know di sekret wey make am get pawa.

10 Leta, Delilah kon tell Samson, “Si, yu dey lie for mi kon make mi bi like fool! Abeg, make yu tell mi di trut, na how dem fit take tie yu?”

11 Samson ansa am, “If dem tie mi with new rope wey dem neva use before, I go weak well-well.”

12 So Delilah take new rope kon tie am. Di men dey di oda room dey wait, so e kon shaut, “Samson! Filistia pipol don kom katch yu!” But e kut di rope komot for en hand like sey na tread.

13 Den Delilah tell am, “Yu still dey lie and fool mi! So naw, make yu tell mi how pesin fit take tie yu.” Den Samson ansa am, “If yu plait my hair into seven part kon use peg take make am tit, I go dey weak well-well.” So wen Samson dey sleep, Delilah kon plait di hair into seven part.

14 Den e tit am with di peg. E kon shaut again, “Samson! Filistia pipol don kon katch yu o-o!” So Samson wake-up, remove di peg, den luz en hair.

15 Den Delilah vex kon tell am, “Why yu dey tell mi sey, ‘I love yu’ and yu nor fit trust mi kon tell mi yor sekret? Yu don fool mi three times naw and yu neva still tell mi wetin make yu dey strong!” 16Delilah kontinue to dey tok and komplain until Samson kon taya for en wahala,

17so e tell am di trut at last. E sey, “Dem neva kut my hair wons, bikos wen dem born mi, dem dedikate mi give God as Nazirite. So if yu kut my hair, my pawa go leave mi and I go kon dey weak just like anybody.”

18 Delilah just know sey Samson don tell am di trut, so e send message go give Filistia rulers sey, “Make una kom back just dis last time, bikos e don tell mi di trut.” So dem bring di money follow body kom. 19Delilah deceive Samson sleep for en lap, den koll one man make e kut di seven hair komot. Den e put am for groun small-small, bikos en pawa don leave am.

20 Den e shaut, “Samson! Filistia pipol don kon katch yu!” E wake-up kon tell ensef, “I go do as I dey do before, I go shake mysef and dey free.” E nor know sey Oga God don leave am.

21 So Filistia pipol katch am kon blind en eye, den dem tie am with bronze shain; take am go Gaza kon force am make e dey grind korn for prison.  

22 But e nor too tey, before en hair kon dey grow kom again.

23 Filistia rulers dey do party, offa sakrifice and dey praiz dia god wey bi Dagon kon dey sey, “Awa god don give us viktory ova Samson wey bi awa enemy!”

24 Wen di pipol si am, dem praiz dia god sey, “Awa god don diliver awa enemy give us! Di pesin wey kill many of awa pipol don dey under awa pawa naw!”

25 Many of dem don drink by naw, so dem sey, “Make una bring Samson kom out make e kon make us laf!” So dem bring am kom out from di prison and e stand between di two pila wey dey support di building. Dem kon dey play with am, so dat e go make dem laf.

26 Den Samson tell di boy wey hold en hand sey, “Make yu put my two hand for di pila wey hold di temple, bikos I won rest my body.”

27 By dis time, di temple don already full with pipol. All di five Filistia rulers dey der and about 3,000 men and wimen dey der dey wosh Samson as e dey make dem laf.

28 Den Samson pray give God sey, “Oga God wey get pawa, remember mi again. My God! Abeg make Yu give mi pawa one more time. Make I pay Filistia pipol back for my eye wey dem blind.”  

29 Samson put en two hand for di pila wey hold di temple kon push am,  

30 den e pray sey, “My God, make Yu allow mi die with Filistia pipol wey bi my enemies.” Den di temple fall skata for di five rulers and di pipol head. Di pipol wey Samson kill wen e dey die, many pass di ones wey e kill wen e dey alive.

31 Afta, en brodas and family kon karry en dead body. Dem take am go beri between Zorah and Eshtaol, where dem beri en papa Manoah put. Samson lead Israel pipol for twenty years

 

“It don over,” “it don finish,” “it don the end,” or any kata kata wey person fit talk when e think say e don lose. Hey! Make you wake up and remember say Jesus talk say “it don finish” by himsefe—how person go fit come talk say e don finish if e no match wetin happen for the cross? 

Samson power dey inside him hair, and when dem cut am, e for don talk say “na finish” but e no talk so. Hair go grow again! 

And Samson hair grow back! 

Before dem Samson born, angel talk to him papa and mama say e be special pikin. E suppose be Nazirite, wey mean say e go follow special rules: he no go drink wine, touch dead body, or cut im hair. Em long hair na sign say e get promise to God and na the secret of im power! Samson break all these rules. But God still use am. 

You dey for a place now wey you think say because of wetin you don do God no go use you again? No worry, God fit still use you. 

Samson get strong power! Na Bible superman him be. E kill lion with him hand. E defeat many Philistines just with jawbone of donkey. He carry the gate of the city for shoulder. God give am strength to protect people. Samson strength no come from gym or food but as God give am! 

Samson life na example for 1 Corinthians 15:33. When you dey hang out with bad people or group, e fit spoil your vision, spoil your life, even kill your future. That na wetin Delilah do. Samson fall in love with Delilah. Philistines come pay her to find secret of im strength. After many times she come ask Samson to tell her where him strength dey, e come tell her say the strength dey for im hair. 

Who be the enemy wey dem don pay to worry you? To spoil your future, your passion, your calling, your health? To stop your dream, even to kill you? 

Delilah come cut Samson hair when e dey sleep and Samson lose im power. The Philistines come fit catch Samson, den lock am up. 

God never finish with you or your matter like e no finish with Samson. E mean say if God dey inside, hope dey, restoration dey, purpose dey—even if everything look impossible. God get final word (Isaiah 46:10) say “My purpose go stand, I go do wetin I like.” Even if life look like e finish, God plan still dey move. E no over! 

E fit look like you fail, but failure no be final. Micah 7:8 talk say “No celebrate as I fall, my enemy! Even if I fall, I go rise!” Mistake and setback no go controls your future if you trust God. 

Learn to trust and depend on God again like Samson do. God dey always finish wetin e start as Philippians 1:6 talk. If God start something for your life, e go complete am. No worry! 

Believe say “it no go over until God talk say it don over” mean say believer go still fight, pray, and trust because God fit still intervene and bring victory, see Jeremiah 32:27; Luke 1:37; and Matthew 19:26. 

Trust God and see as Him go give you power to do great things. Even if we mess up, God fit still use us if we come back to am. 

REFLECTION QUESTIONS 

- I dey use my strength and talents to help others like God want? 

- Where I dey get my strength from—na from myself or from God? 

- Wetin one way I fit obey God this week? 

- I fit remember to pray when I need strength or courage. 

PRAYER: Lord, help me to obey You like how Samson suppose do. Teach me to listen and to follow Your rules every day, in Jesus’s name, Amen. 

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