Day 74 | Judges 14–16 — Devoted to Himself Until the End — Samson, Delilah, and the Prayer That Finally Came | Bible in a Year

There's a particular kind of ache in doing something meaningful without ever feeling like you're part of the story. Samson has strength enough for ten men and devotion to no one but himself. Every relationship becomes a means to an end, every vow gets broken, until he's blind, chained, and mocked in the temple of a false god. It's there, stripped of everything, that he finally prays — “remember me” — and finds in his last act the purpose his whole life avoided.Here we consider self-devotion, wasted potential, God's sovereignty over our failures, and a final cry that finds grace.