This baby doesn't need a stroller; he needs a pickup.
According to a Feb. 1 AP story, a baby recently born in the Mexican resort city of Cancun weighed in at 14.5 pounds at birth. Antonio -- called "Super Tonio" around the hospital -- measures 22 inches in length. He's also got quite an appetite for a newborn, drinking 5 ounces of milk every three hours.
Antonio is not the largest baby every born; a baby born in Brazil in 2005 weighed 16 pounds, 11 ounces at birth, and even that wasn't the record.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces, born in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955.

Someone who must have had a pretty big baby was Samson’s mother. Her story is found in Judges 13 and 14.
Now Sampson is the “son” of “Samp”. Sampson’s father’s name was Manoah, so if Sampson was the son of Samp, then his mother’s name must have been Samp, the name I will call her this morning.
Samp wanted to do what every mother wants: To bring her child up right.
Samp had the special privilege of understanding before Sampson was born that Sampson was a gift from God.
“3 The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, “You are sterile and childless, but you are going to conceive and have a son.” Judges 13:3, NIV.
To have the angel of the Lord make this kind of announcement would cement in any woman that she was truly blessed. Yet the Psalmist tells us “children are a gift from God.” Though announced in person, we have the confirmation from the word of God.
Children who are cute, cuddly, and quiet are gifts from God. Children who are deformed, cranky, or troublesome are gifts from God. The gift is the child. Recognize and love the child you have as a gift from God.
Samp had a plan, a plan that started before the child was born. This plan was initiated by the angel of the Lord.
Samp’s plan was to raise her child according to the Nazirite vow.
Here are come key components of this vow.
First, the vow is a special vow.
“1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of separation to the LORD as a Nazirite,

Second, the Nazirite would abstain from fermented drink.
3 he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink. He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins. 4 As long as he is a Nazirite, he must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.

Third, he would never get a haircut.
5 During the entire period of his vow of separation no razor may be used on his head. He must be holy until the period of his separation to the LORD is over; he must let the hair of his head grow long.

Fourth, he must not go near a dead body.
6 Throughout the period of his separation to the LORD he must not go near a dead body. 7 Even if his own father or mother or brother or sister dies, he must not make himself ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of his separation to God is on his head. 8 Throughout the period of his separation he is consecrated to the LORD. 9 “‘If someone dies suddenly in his presence, thus defiling the hair he has dedicated, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing--the seventh day. 10 Then on the eighth day he must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 11 The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him because he sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. That same day he is to consecrate his head. 12 He must dedicate himself to the LORD for the period of his separation and must bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. The previous days do not count, because he became defiled during his separation.

Fifth, The vow of being separate for God had a beginning and an end.
13 “‘Now this is the law for the Nazirite when the period of his separation is over. He is to be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 14 There he is to present his offerings to the LORD: a year-old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering, a ram without defect for a fellowship offering, 15 together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of bread made without yeast--cakes made of fine flour mixed with oil, and wafers spread with oil. 16 “‘The priest is to present them before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering. 17 He is to present the basket of unleavened bread and is to sacrifice the ram as a fellowship offering to the LORD, together with its grain offering and drink offering. 18 “‘Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that he dedicated. He is to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering. 19 “‘After the Nazirite has shaved off the hair of his dedication, the priest is to place in his hands a boiled shoulder of the ram, and a cake and a wafer from the basket, both made without yeast. 20 The priest shall then wave them before the LORD as a wave offering; they are holy and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine. 21 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD in accordance with his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford. He must fulfil the vow he has made, according to the law of the Nazirite.’”” Numbers 6:1-21, NIV.

We don’t see much of the Nazirite vow explained in the Bible. Some believe that Samuel might have taken the vow, others have said that perhaps John the Baptist and Paul may have done so.
But whatever the case, Samp was determined to raise her child to live for God. He was dedicated under the Nazirite vow to be a deliverer to free Israel from the people of Palestine.
“4 Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean, 5 because you will conceive and give birth to a son. No razor may be used on his head, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, set apart to God from birth, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”” Judges 13:4, 5, NIV.

There is nothing you can do that is more important as a mother than to dedicate yourself to raising godly children.
One very articulate lady defended the importance of motherhood this way. When asked, in a condescending way, what she did for a living she responded, "I am socializing two Homo sapiens in the dominant values of the Judeo-Christian tradition in order that they might be instruments for the transformation of the social order into the theleologically prescribed utopia inherent in the eschaton. And what do you do?" For those who need a simpler version, "I’m raising two children to be salt and light so that they will be prepared for the Kingdom that is coming."
So what can you expect as a mother if you raise a child with this kind of determination?
You can expect some unexpected twists.
You might want a well-behaved child who loves to go to church, read his Bible, pray, make godly decisions and just bless your socks off. What you might get, at least at first, might be a different story.
If you read the life of Sampson, it might be easy to forget that he lived under a vow.
Sampson tried to marry a woman of whom his mother didn’t approve (Jud 14:1-3).
How many mother’s know that heartache?
He became involved with prostitutes (Judges 16:1)
Godly parents grieve when their children break the laws of God.
He ended up losing his life because he was betrayed by a woman (Judges 16:16).
Today we would say that he had relationship issues.
But in accordance with the vow Samp made with God, and the promise of the angel to her, Sampson was used to overthrow the power of the Philistines.
Sampson was very strong. As a child he no doubt could throw further, run faster, wrestle anyone his age and may be older. But in his adult life, in a time where almost everyone did what they wanted to do, where self-centeredness was the rule, God used him to protect a nation.
Sampson was not perfect. He didn’t look like Samuel, the priest-judge who would follow soon after. But God used him.
I don’t know about Samp’s attitude during her lifetime, but if she lived today as a descendant of the tribe of Dan, she would be proud.
"Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck's sneakers are equal opportunity offenders. They smell as bad as they look."
According to a March 20 AP story, the Utah seventh-grader is $2,500 richer because of her nasty footwear, as she out-ranked six other children to win the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest. Katherine stunk up the joint "with a pair of well-worn 1 1/2-year-old Nikes so noxious they had the judges wincing."
"I'm so proud of the little stinker," said her mother, Paula Tuck.
And that might have been what Sampson’s mother said.
Sampson turns back to God. He is a prisoner, brought into the hall for show. As he faces the jeering crowd, his last words are a prayer, a prayer to God.
Be faithful, mother’s. Expect the unexpected. Know that God is watching. Determine that you will do your part to teach your children the way of the Lord. Leave the results to God.
I don’t have a big application for this message. I just want you to know that when you work with your children, your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Blessed is the mother who trusts in the Lord. Selah!