1 Samuel 1

May 19

1 Samuel 1

God gives a child to Hannah and Elkanah, after Hannah's years of praying for a son.

INSIGHT

The grief of being childless drives Hannah to God. In Him, she finds her only resource for consolation.

Even though children may cry when they are taken to a doctor by their parents, they still trust their parents in spite of fear and pain. Similarly we must still trust and cling to the Lord even though we do not understand why He does not deliver us from our pain. Just as children will someday understand about the doctor, we will someday understand about the pain.