There are things in our lives that, no matter how detrimental they may be to our wellbeing, they are so comforting we refuse to let them go. There are things in my life in which God must intervene because I am unable to save myself. When Samson laid in the lap of Delilah, he immediately woke at the sound of the coming Philistines, but when he shook himself the might of his strength had departed (Judges 16:20); when Saul was appointed king, scripture tells us that he was head and shoulders above his contemporaries, but when a single act placed him at odds with God’s word, no matter how great his sorrow, the glory of the kingdom was stripped from his hands and given to another (1 Samuel 15:24-28); as well remember lot's wife that when the angel of the Lord led them from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and said “Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, …” (Genesis 19:17), she did exactly that "she looked back
