01/17/2025 – God will do What We Cannot Do
1 Samuel 2: 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard everything his sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 23 So he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people. 24 No, my sons! For it is not a good report that I hear. You make the Lord’s people transgress. 25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against the Lord, who will intercede for him?” Nevertheless they did not heed the voice of their father, because the Lord desired to kill them 30 Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.
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God will do what you cannot do. He will overcome the enemies you could not defeat; pay the debt you cannot pay. Eli was not able to correct his children, so God did something about it. God used a woman named Hanna to give birth to Samuel, the prophet- a true servant of God.
God’s work always begins with one person. The way God planned to lift His people out of the darkest period, the way He would transform the priesthood and establish the kingdom of God through David first and then through our Lord Jesus, would start with a humble woman. She did not seem to have any power. Even her most basic source of value to society, motherhood, had been denied to her. Hanna was looked down upon because she could not have children. But God did something about it. Her husband could not do anything, but God would do something! If you believe, if you pray, God will always do something!
For your situation to change at home, God must do something in you first. God did much more than open her womb. God opened her eyes to believe, to look beyond the corruption of the priesthood and still go to the temple and pour out her soul before God! God opened her mouth in praise and in song! We are told that the word of God was scarce in those days, but she was filled with a song inspired by the Holy Spirit!
Hannah gave her son to God. She was moved not just to ask and receive, but to give to God what belongs to Him. This seems impossible for any mother to do, but God did it through her. What will God do in your life?