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Today's reading covers Judges 16 and Proverbs 15:26–29. Our reflection traces Samson's fatal entanglement with Delilah, who presses him day after day until he finally reveals the secret of his Nazirite vow, leading to his hair being cut. We see the LORD leave him and take his strength. Samson's capture, blinding, and imprisonment by the Philistines lead to Samson's final moment, where, in blindness and weakness, he calls out to the Lord one last time for strength. Yahweh provides the strength to bring down the temple of Dagon and kill more Philistines in his death than in his entire life. This moment leads him to a place among the faithful in Hebrews 11 as he cries out to God in faith, despite a life largely given over to his own flesh and desires.

In Proverbs 15:26–29, the discussion covers the abomination of the wicked's thoughts against the purity of gracious words, the trouble that greed for unjust gain brings on one's own household against the life found in hating a bribe, the righteous heart that ponders its answer against the wicked mouth that pours out evil, and the Lord's distance from the wicked against His attentiveness to the prayer of the righteous.

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