If we could see the sightless eyeballs, the groping hands in a world of darkness, never to see again; if we could hear Samson’s screams in the prison of Gaza; if we could see the anguish, the utter desolation of spirit, then we would know.

One night of pleasure is not worth a lifetime of blindness! Them Samson told Delilah his secret.

As they lay that night in an orgy of sin, slowly the light of God began to go out in his soul. It had been going out  for a long time. The next morning he lay stripped of the Spirit of God, his long locks gone, his God-given sign gone, his sex drive dissipated, his faith lost.

Delilah had signaled for the Philistines to bring a barber, and while Samson slept, they had cut off the seven locks of his hair.

“Samson, the Philistines are upon us,” Delilah cried  as she shook him.

He leaped up, flexed his muscles and said, “I will shake myself as at other times before,” but he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.

When he raised his arms he found they were weak, God was gone, and with God gone, his strength was gone

“Delilah!” You have cut off my hair! My God, what have I done?

How long does it take for God to leave a person? God is not a man; therefore, He doesn’t leave a person the first time he does something wrong, nor the second or third time. He is merciful and He holds on and on. But when a person makes up his mind to disregard God and leave Him out of his life, the day will come when God will depart. When God leaves, everything is gone.

What did the Philistines do to Samson? After his seven locks of hair, they took away his most precious treasure-his eyes. If a man had to give up some part of his body, he would say. “Don’t take my eyes.” When you live in sin and give the devil your life, he will take from you the most precious thing you have.

They were not able to put out Samson’s eyes until he proved he couldn’t see. They could not confine him in dungeon darkness until the light of God went out in his soul.