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*Hannah: A Model for Motherhood* \\ \\ 1 Samuel 1:1-2:11 \\ \\ In a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip,
Calvin is standing by his mother’s bed when he says,
“Hey, Mom! Wake up.
I made you a Mother’s Day card.”
His mother was very pleased and started to read it out loud.
“I was going to buy a card with hearts of pink and red.
But then I thought I’d rather spend the money instead.
\\ It’s awfully hard to buy things
when one’s allowance is so small.
\\ So I guess you’re plenty lucky I got you anything at all.
\\ Happy Mother’s Day!
There, I’ve said it.
Now I’m done.
\\ So how about getting out of bed
and fixing breakfast for your son.”
\\ Last Sunday as we were driving to church
Mattias leaned over from the back seat
gave Hedi a kiss on the cheek and said,
“Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!”
Hedi objected,
“But it’s not Mother’s Day today – that’s next Sunday.”
And Mattias says,
“Oh no!
I wasted a perfectly good kiss!”
It’s not easy to be a mom!
A mother was talking to an old college friend and said,
“I remember before I was married
that I had three theories about raising children.
Now I have three children and no theories.”
Almost 100 years ago, in 1914,
by an act of Congress,
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States
proclaimed the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
He established the day as a time
for “public expression of our love and reverence
for our mothers.”
The Sunday School children
Have already helped us to celebrate our moms
By telling us with their songs and poems
How special our mothers really are.
We want to look at the first two chapters of 1 Samuel,
To identify some important traits
of a Woman of Faith.
You know the story of Hanna and Samuel
And I won’t read the whole story now.
Hannah was one of the two wives of Elkanna –
(in those days it was legal to have more than one wife).
Hannah couldn’t bear children,
And Peninnah, the other wife,
Made fun of her and hurt her feelings deeply.
So Hannah went to the temple and prayed to God.
As she was praying in the temple the Priest Eli,
Thought that she was drunk.
Hannah’s prayer was very real
And she made a deal with God,
That if God would give her a child,
She would dedicate him to God as a servant.
We can learn a number of things from Hannah
As a woman of faith:
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*1.
Hanna had real problems *(1:1-8).
It’s easy to think that the heroes in the Bible
were somehow different than we are.
We might think that it’s tough to relate to them
because their lives were so perfect
and their culture was so different than ours.
But actually, the Bible is filled with real people
with real problems,
who face them with real faith.
\\ \\ *2.
Hannah expressed her dependence on God in prayer (1:9-18).*
Hannah had some problems
but she didn’t shut down
or lash out at those around her.
She expressed her faith in prayer.
She went looking for God in the temple,
And waited for God to answer her prayers.
Sometimes God uses our problems
to get our attention
and to tell us about His plan.
*3.
Hannah experienced God’s provision (1:19-20).*
Verse 19 tells us that once again
they got up early the next morning
and worshipped before the Lord.
This was their regular practice,
not something they did just once in awhile.
Then they went back home.
A short time later,
Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son,
naming him Samuel.
His name sounds like the Hebrew for “God hears prayers.”
Every time she called his name
she was reminded that God provides
and God answers prayers.
\\ \\ *4.
Hannah kept her promise (1:21-28).*
After Samuel was born,
Elkanah went once again to Shiloh in order to worship.
Hannah decided to not go until Samuel was weaned,
which would have been at around three-years-old.
She dedicated herself to her child,
nursing and nurturing him,
knowing that when he is able to eat on his own,
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