1 SAMUEL 2.1-10--HANNAH'S PRAYER

 

Hannah's prayer reflects that the result of her great heartache, she learned much about You.  Her heart remained tender, sweet, and gentle, but deepened in her great need for You.

When You answered the cry of her heart after many years, she was prepared with a heart able to receive many deep realizations from You and celebrate with joy and thanksgiving how wonderful You are.

 

She saw, realized that the child was Your preparation of her life and that the birth was a "deliverance" for her own soul--grief, sadness, sorrow, doubts, suffering, shame…..

She clearly and joyfully, gratefully, recognized Your glorious grace in her whole life plan and purpose.

 

She saw You as holy and like a Rock, a Rock like no other source to depend on for life fulfillment, a Rock Whose promises never fail.

 

She had suffered from the proud and arrogant words of the jealous Peninnah.

She now knew that You known all about all her life and grief.  She now knew that the difference between sorrow and pride had mattered to You all the time.

 

Humility and grief matter "weigh" much more to You than pride and arrogance.

 

The bows of warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with stregth.

The warriors can no longer cause pain and suffering.

Roles are completely reversed.

 

Vv. 4-8 is a series of contrasts between those You bless and those who have been proud and arrogant in their godlessness.

There are nine contrasts.

The list, with the declaration that You are Lord, sets the foundational Laws of life for all the earth. 

 

These foundational Laws of Heaven are the bases of the peace and fulfillment for the world and its peoples.

God is the judge of all the earth.  Those who oppose Him will be broken, no matter how strong they appear to be from earth's values and points of view.

God gives strength to those who are great in the righteousness of Your kingdom.

 

Faith and faithfulness are the measures of greatness, of "Kings," in Your kingdom.

 

Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world

to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised

those who love Him"

James 2.5

 

"He will give strength to His king and exalt the horn of His anointed."

1 Samuel 2.10