Sporting Heroes
Sport In the land of Australia we love our sport and our sportsmen and women. They receive the highest praise for their achievements. No one would deny the hard work and dedication that is needed as well as exceptional skill displayed. In the book of Judges the Scriptures of Truth mention the word sport in relation to ridicule. The strongest man ever was named Samson. His enemies the Philistines brought about his downfall through the woman Delilah. It seemed that he was defeated when they had performed the unspeakably cruel act of “putting out his eyes” as the Authorised or King James Version of the Bible tells us. In the sixteenth chapter of Judges and verse 25 the Scriptures say “call for Samson that he may make us sport”. So great was his sorrow that he wanted to “die with the Philistines” and this he did. “So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life”. The Philistines died enjoying their “sport”. It seems dear reader that we, like the Phili...