Title: Hannah's Song / 1 Samuel 2:1-11
Hannah trusted God in prayer and prayed with all her heart.
Hannah prayed about her problems, but in prayer, she met God and learned God's wishes. You will discover God's will for you. So I made a vow of devotion. “If you give me a son, I will give it to God because it is clearly a gift from God.” This humble Han dynasty shows how a woman in the real world she met with simple obedience in prayer and simple obedience dedicated to God's will can accomplish unimaginable great and precious things in life. God is still holding us and working like this today. He is the God who gives us wishes and acts to fulfill His will.
Therefore, no matter how cramped and difficult the reality we met -
First, believe that there is a God who has given you that reality.
Second, there is a clear will of God in that reality.
Please take the Word and come to God in prayer. When I meet God in the sanctuary, I discover God's will for me in that reality.
Third, we have nothing but simple obedience to the will of God we have found. But in this simple obedience, God does His will and blesses us.
Today's text is Hannah's confession of faith. God is the God of all of us, but He is the God of the obedient. This is the text of this poem in which Hannah prayed to God with absolute faith in Jehovah in the reality she met, and after obedience, she gives thanks and praises the grace and greatness of the God she met.
After Hannah knew who God was, she could not overcome her emotions and praised God. However, similar praise is found in the Gospel of Luke. There is a 'hymn to Mary', and through this song that instantly expresses the emotion that arises in Mary's heart when she was annunciation and met her cousin Elizabeth, we can see how deep Mary was spiritually. “My soul praises you, my heart rejoices in God and my Savior, because he has looked back on the lowliness of the maidservant.” He praised God’s exalted glory. It can be called the song of However, this is actually God's prophecy that He will give us the Messiah.
God needed a prophet to do the work in order to raise a king to save Israel. He gave a woman named Hannah the reality of infertility so that she cried out. You can guess that you did.
In the text, Hannah is singing about the salvation and providence of God. The knowledge of God that Hannah realized about God was perfect. It is a hymn to the sovereignty of God. Because of this, Hannah relied on God to pray, and she was able to seek and obey God's will and dedicate herself to God.
Please believe that knowing God is a greater grace than Hannah's gaining Samuel. I hope that you will meet the God of salvation that Hannah realized and give glory to you at this time. Although the resolution of the infertility problem is just one individual's experience, this Cheon Song poem has a national scope. Through Hannah, a woman on the outskirts, God's intention to establish the kingdom of God is revealed.
1) God exalted Hannah (verse 1)
Astonishingly, Hannah is praising the God of salvation in that cramped reality. That is why he asked for salvation from that difficult predicament, and he was saved. Jesus is the name that means 'Jehovah is salvation'. God did the amazing work of saving people through Jesus Christ, and those who are saved through this are exalted from the humble and overcome their enemies, and because of this, they rejoice and rejoice. Then, it was not only Hannah's prayer that was heard. This was the praise of God who will give salvation to our lives through Christ. It was a prophecy. Please believe that our prayers have also been answered.
2) The one and only God (verse 2)
Hannah knew better than anyone that it was the grace of God who heard her tearful prayer that made Hannah so high. So Hannah is praising the one and only God who is holy and superior to any other gods in the world.
3) God of knowledge (verse 3)
Before this God, he said, "Don't say anything very arrogant again." “Let no arrogant words come out of your mouth.” “God is the God of knowledge,” he said. He is the One who examines and knows not only human actions but also the motives of actions to the very core. Hannah was able to pray with her whole heart to God because she believed that God is a God of knowledge. Those who know that they are in the presence of this God cannot be proud. You don't deal with people you see. Do not be discouraged by only seeing the visible reality.
4) God who is in charge of life and death (4-8)
Now Hannah is praising God, who is in control of human life. It is a song about the change in the situation of the hero and the fallen, the position of the bereaved and the starving, and the relationship between the barren woman and the woman with many children. To those who seek God with all their heart and pray in this way, God is a great director who unfolds the drama of life's great battle (Job 12:23, Luke 1:52). So, please believe that all the problems of life, life, death, and death are ultimately in God's hands. God kills, makes life, and makes people poor and rich. And he humbles and exalts. This is because everything is in God's hands (Psalm 56:13). God is in control of human life and overall life. In this providence of God, the laws of nature and human agency are included.
(Deuteronomy 30:19-20) "Today I call heaven and earth to testify to you, that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses; choose life so that you and your descendants may live. (20) Love the LORD your God. And obey his word, and submit to him; he is your life and your longevity; and you will dwell in the land the LORD swore to give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." God has already given everything to mankind. However, depending on which one a person chooses, his or her life and death changes are different (John 3:16-18).
5). God who keeps the holy ones (9-11)
The last part of Hannah's song expresses the awe that God keeps the holy and judges those who oppose them. This reverence stems from the fact that God is the Creator of the heavens and the earth. God's absolute sovereignty is a privilege that comes from being a Creator who creates something out of nothing (Psalm 103:19).
In verse 2 it says there is no rock like our God, but in verse 9 it says that he keeps the feet of the holy ones. The absolute sovereignty of this Creator protects the holy, but judges those who oppose you. Life becomes holy when it is in the presence of God. Because God is holy. To be holy, we must depend on the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. This is possible only with true faith. But fallen human beings avoid entering into God by rejecting Jesus Christ. It is because they are evil (John 3:19-20). Therefore, God protects those who are sanctified through faith in Jesus Christ, but judges the unholy ones who resist by rejecting it.
When we think of God's amazing grace in raising a lowly person like me to the class of eternal blessing, even if we have everything, praise will not be enough. We are grateful that we have stood in this holy class through the cross of Jesus Christ, and we will have to take on the mission of spreading this wonderful gospel to all nations throughout the rest of our lives.
Hannah met God, and she knew and obeyed God's will. Through Samuel, whom Hannah gave birth to, God is trying to save Israel. He is trying to save the world through Jesus, whom Mary gave birth to. How we respond to God's providence of salvation is important. However, although this is a precious and blessed thing, please do not forget that it is simply obedience to God in the reality we met.
God is the God of salvation. God is unique. God is the God of knowledge. All sovereignty belongs to God. God is the Rock that protects His elect