Out Of The Lion

Lions are mentioned over 150 times in the Bible.

They are one of the most frequently mentioned animals in the scriptures.

Lions are huge majestic cats known for their fierceness and toughness.

Carnivorous and wild, they are beasts capable of feasting on human beings, they are not domestic animals though there are situations where lions are tamed and kept like domestic pets, as exotic pets.

There is no creature human beings have not made an effort to tame.

Defeating and killing a lion was part of David's testimony and qualification to go up against the warrior giant called Goliath.

David didn't see Goliath as any different from the predators he had killed when they came for the sheep he was protecting.

Lions are powerful beasts who hunt, in most scenarios they prevail over men when man and lion come face to face.

David's courageous victories over the bear and the lion, which are strong predators given to killing and destroying is no mean feat, considering David was a teenager of about14 to 16 years old at the time.

What a guy, what a boy! A real wonder boy!

Samson is another figure from the scriptures who killed a lion.

A Nazarene from birth, a man of the covenant and a child of promise he operated in supernatural strength as a gift and covenant from God for a purpose.

Samson didn't just operate in the spirit of might, he was also blessed with the gift of putting forth riddles.

He prevailed over the lion that had roared at him when journeying with his parents to meet the family of the Philistine lady he had fallen in love with and her family.

His parents were not with him at the exact moment it happened.

The spirit of might was at work in Samson, the lion chose the wrong man for a fight, the lion roared at the wrong person. It was a miscalculated move. That lion met its demise.

He killed the lion rather easily without his parents knowing what had happened, he didn't tell them what he had done, it must have been a quick kill!

On their way back home, Samson saw the carcass of the lion he had killed and found honey in it.

The carcass of lions is not where bees would naturally build their hive and produce honey.

Despite that, Samson found honey in the most unlikely place.

He found honey in the enemy that wanted to make a meal out of him.

Samson got a meal out of his enemy instead.

The honey in the carcass of the lion represents Samsons reward for winning the fight.

The honey was Samson's compensation for being roared at.

The honey was Samson's blessing for defeating an enemy.

The honey represents Samson's spoil of war.

The honey symbolizes what is rightfully yours but cannot be reached until you defeat the enemy denying you of what's yours.

The honey is symbolic of satisfaction and fulfilment after winning over a lion of life.

He shared the honey with his parents, but they did not know where he got it from.

The three of them ate and enjoyed the honey.

His parents benefitted from his reward.

Lions are symbolic of enemies, powerful enemies. 

They can be fallen angels, demons, humans, witchcraft, shrines and altars.

Lions can symbolize that which can eat us up.

They can be used to represent problems that are beyond us, challenges that can take us out if not for the Lord's help.

Lions represent that which has an advantage over us, a war or a battle that can potentially unalive us.

There are insights we can glean from the Samson and the lion encounter:-

We need the Lord's Spirit to overcome the lions of life.

We need the Lord's strength to overcome the things, issues and enemies that want to swallow us up.

There are those the lions of life cannot prevail over or defeat because they are chosen, they are individuals of the covenant, and they have been endowed with something extra.

For the battles of life that come against us or roar at us, we can win and our loved ones and family can benefit from our victory too.

Out of our tough battles and warfare sweet rewards can come out of it.

Out of the enemy or enemies that have come against us we can get the spoils of war.

For every battle of life we fight, there must be sweet compensation.

"Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet"