At last, God found someone who will listen! The story of Samuel’s call and first prophecy is one mixed with as much charm and purity as it is with expressions of dire consequences to Eli and his family. Eli was a priest set aside to listen, but he refused. He was deaf to the warning about his sons who likely started out simply as spoiled children, but wound up in brazen wickedness.

So careful was Samuel to listen to God that no word of God fell worthless to the ground. In their own way, Samuel’s words were as the sparrow of last Sunday’s Gospel that does not fall to the ground apart from God’s will.

Let your words flow carefully from your mouth, so that none of them will be worthless—or those you wish you had recalled!

1 Samuel 3—4

What are Bible Breaths? Learn More…
Example: Here I am, for You called me 3:5

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the season of Pentecost this year we read Proverbs 13 and 14 and 1 Samuel.

 

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