Hannah Dedicates Samuel
21 When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vow, 22 Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”[c]23 “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his[d] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
24 After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,[e] an ephah[f] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. 25 When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, 26 and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. 27 I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. 28 So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.
She held up her end of the promise to the Lord. How many times do we pray: "Lord if you ... I will ..." But when the Lord brings you there... you forget Him and the promise you made to Him. It is so true. I remember Pastor mentioned before, saying there's this man who is stranded by a shipwreck and he was stranded in the middle of some ocean. Though he believed in God, he prayed to God to help him and if God help him, he will donate all his possessions to a church. As he reaches the island, his promise of "all his possessions" became "half" then "one quarter" then ... none when he reaches the island. So, we must remember, where we are today is because of God, Thank Him. Just like how Hannah honoured her promise to God, we should also do so! Because doing so shows our spirtual maturity and it is good.
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