The crisis facing our children

The days spoken of in the opening chapters of 1 Samuel were days of deepening spiritual declension. And yet in the midst of those depressing circumstances, there was evidence of the gracious working of God. While some were doing that which was right in their own eyes, there were others who were seeking to do what was right in God’s eyes. There were men and women who were striving to raise up a family in the fear and admonition of the Lord AND they succeeded! The apostasy of the last days does not give Christians an excuse to live like the world. We are not to be conformed to this world – but transformed by the renewing of our minds. Let us never use the spiritual declension that is around us as an excuse to leave the God we love and sin against our Saviour…. Rather than walking as the world – let us be distinct in the world and live for God with all our hearts.

Hannah the wife of Elkannah was a remarkable woman with a burden to raise her family for God. There is something extremely refreshing about this woman – something impressive, encouraging, instructive – and it has to do with how she lived at a time of crisis facing her children.