Hannah...said to her husband, "After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always."
My daughters are on mission trips right now. One is in Nicaragua and the other is in Nepal. I have thought of Hannah often during these weeks that they've been gone (and the months leading up to this). Hannah had dedicated her son to God, and willingly made good on her promise.
It couldn't have been easy. Not only was she surrendering her very young (and only) son, but she was sending him into an atmosphere that wasn't particularly godly (2:12). Surely people talked, and Hannah probably knew what Eli's sons were doing. If Eli couldn't raise his own sons to honor God, how could she trust him with Samuel?
But Hannah understood that she wasn't really handing her son over to Eli. She knew to Whom she was entrusting his care. In verse 28 she says, "So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord." She knew that God would watch over Samuel, and have His hand on her son throughout his entire life.
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