Footsteps to Zion

One of the strongest men who ever lived was Samson. He was so strong that he was known to have killed a lion with his bare hands, caught three hundred foxes, and killed a thousand men with a jawbone of a donkey. However, while he was physically strong, sadly, he was morally weak because he was ruled by lust. Samson’s strength, therefore, was not true strength for true strength is not merely outward, but inward. True strength is the kind of inner strength that enables us to control our own emotions and appetites. Does your strength today come from your inner man or outer man ? The inner man is the person’s mind, conscience, and will. The outer man involves our physical bodies. The Bible mentions this in 2 Corinthians 4:16 which says: “ Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day… ” As Christians, there is a great need for us to be strengthened in the inner man. Otherwise, Paul would not have pray...