Today holds Samson's collapse and Samson's comeback prayer, Delilah, the haircut, the gouged eyes, and then, chained between pillars, Sovereign LORD, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more.

God answered. Psalm 103 explains why He does that sort of thing: as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. Read today inside that distance.

Samson wasted nearly everything, calling, strength, sight, and his last prayer still got through. God's willingness to hear a ruined man's remember me is the whole gospel in miniature, and the writer of Hebrews lists Samson, of all people, among the faithful. Grace keeps files we would have shredded.

Cana says the same thing in a sweeter key: with Jesus, the best is never behind you; He saves good wine for late in the feast. So bring Him the depleted thing, the failure, the empty jars, the shorn strength, and pray Samson's prayer without shame: strengthen me once more. East-from-west forgiveness means the comeback is always closer than the collapse.