There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

RECOVERING FROM A FATAL FALL Since the Roman armor was created by melting metals and forming them in molds, obviously it requires an intensive heat to melt iron ore. From time to time the fiery trials of our faith become so hot that we feel as though we are burning in a furnace heated seven times hotter (Dan. 3:19). If the heat begins to melt the metal and you are consumed and overwhelmed with disaster and defeat, then take the molten metal and re-form a new set of weapons of war to wear. At times the fall of a great man or woman of God requires rebuilding and reconstructing a new armament for recovering from a fatal fall. When Samson broke his Nazirite vow by telling Delilah the real secret of his strength, God’s champion was reduced to a chump, and the man who took the jawbone of a donkey and slew a thousand Philistines was now blind, bound, and forced round and round in the prison house. (See Judges 16.) His actions were self-invited cracks in his armor. In reality, he simply didn’t have his armor on when he was sleeping in the lap of Delilah, this charming director of a hair-cutting salon. She began playing with his mind (no helmet here), she manipulated his emotions and his heart (no breastplate on this guy), yet he kept returning to her house for secret rendezvous. (Where were those gospel shoes he should be wearing— Ephesians 6:15?) The title of Samson’s autobiography could