Saturday, March 10, 2012

Manoah

“Then Manoah prayed to the Lord: ‘O Lord, I beg You, let the man of God You sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.’” Judges 13:8
There aren’t many instances in the Bible where we are told of how a particular person came to be born, but Samson is one. His father was Manoah; we aren’t told his mother’s name. We are told that the angel of the Lord appeared to her and told her that although she was barren, she would conceive and bear a son. She then told this to her husband Manoah, who prayed and asked God to send His messenger again to give them more information. This shows great humility and faith on his part. He didn’t doubt what she said, or what she had seen.
Although the Bible teaches that the husband is the head of the home, it doesn’t say that he is always right! God speaks to both men and women, husbands and wives, and both are told to submit to one another in Christ (Eph. 5:21). Yes the husband is the head, and he is the one who must ultimately make the decisions in the home, but a man who doesn’t listen to his wife’s advice is failing to use one of the greatest gifts God has given him.
Manoah didn’t ignore his wife or rebuke her for being ‘super-spiritual’. He didn’t ask God to send the messenger to appear to himself as He had done for his wife, instead saying, “let the man of God You sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy” (emphasis added). He and his wife were a team, a single unit. They were in this together.

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