Samson's Jawbone

             Recently my local television station featured a woman who risked her life to run into a raging fire and save a one-year old child. When asked if she considered herself a hero she said that she was a person of faith and that she had been walking down the street when God told her to run into the fire and save the child. She said, that people who did what God told them to did were not heroes. God got the credit. Many Christians today live this way. They interpret some impression or emotional impulse as an epiphany, and act on those impression as if they were the Word of God itself. Some would even say that the failure to act on such impulses was the equivalent of disobeying a specific biblical command. Some people would look at this woman's testimony as divine personal guidance and would consider anyone who questioned the basis for this woman's action as disobedient or hypocritical. They insist God speaks to people today. Just like he did in the Old Testament, and if