Hannah
Here is the bio on Hannah...
She was a God loving chica who was adored by her husband. This is good!
AND she was unable to have kids and was shamed by this. This is not good.
Christians often struggle with the issue of finding the balance between "Accepting God's will for their lives" and Praying for a change.
I, personally, can make a case for both options there....and it is hard to know which one is right for different chapters of my life.
Hannah, was firmly in the camp of "Pray Until Something Happens"
She constantly begged God for a baby. She begged with so much urgency that she looked drunk.
Eventually...she went beyond praying, and she made a covenant with God.
She agreed to give her son back to God, if only he would give her a baby.
God agreed...Samuel (His name means asked of God) was born!
I think that there are two things to take away from this story the first being the fact that God really did care about Hannah's happiness. He really did take her desires into consideration...and he did not seem angry at her for asking for the thing that she badly wanted.
The second (and more important) is this: Hannah could not have what she wanted until she was willing to literally give her desire back to God. She had to want God to be served more than she wanted to be a mother.
She had to give up her desire before it could be fulfilled.
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