During each gathering in my women's Bible study, we each share what wonderous thing we have learned from our study. It's interesting to see how God has spoken to our hearts during each of our individual studies.
You may have noticed I have been reading David: 90 Days to a Heart Like His. I am 80 days into the 90 days of study, and one of the earliest days of study is still one of my favorite.
In 1 Samuel 1:19-28, Hannah conceived and gave birth to Samuel. Hannah had been childless, and had prayed for a child with the promise that she would give the child back to the Lord. When Samuel was weaned (~3) she took him and presented him to the Lord. Verse 28 tells us "He worshipped the Lord."
We learn that the Herbrew word for worship used here is "shachah." Bible commentaries tell us this word isn't used in the general sense of worship, but specifically to bow down, to prostrate oneself as an act of respect before a superior being." In other words, little 3 year old Samuel bent down and bowed before the God of all creation.
Wow! Samuel learned his faith from his mother, Hannah. As a mother, I want to have faith like Hannah to share as she does in 1 Samuel 2:2 "There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no rock like our God."
And we know the rest of the story: Samuel becomes the divinely ordained leader of Israel and later anoints God's chosen leader for his people. Wow! What a blessing to Hannah for her faithfulness.
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