Samson’s Weary State
I love that old snapshot of grace found in Samson’s weary state after a successful fight against the Philistines. According to the Book of Judges this great hero of old, spent and frazzled following victory against overwhelming odds, sat down and cried out to Jehovah: “You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst?” And the biblical text says that Jehovah “opened up the hollow place . . . and water came out of it.” And the great hero Samson drank deeply of God’s provision. No small wonder he named the place En Hakkore, or, The Spring of One Who Cries. When have you cried out to God of late?