Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Samuel 2:1-10
by: Stephanie Sholtz.
Hannah, who previously prayed from the depths of pain, prayed here in great joy. She understood that God was the One who changed her circumstance and gave all the glory to Him. Hannah focused on justice and talked about how God lifts up the poor, the low, and the beggar. In her book “Suffering and the Heart of God,” Diane Langberg wrote about how grace does not stay above but comes down. Grace does not wait to see who gets out of the muck. Grace comes down and reaches into the muck to pull people out. She further states that showing God’s grace requires His people to lend a hand to others still in the muck. How incredible that God’s grace reaches to us while we are still in the muck.