May the mumbling commence!
Story is powerful.
I love to tell the story. Song is
equally as powerful. It makes a lasting
impression on us. We remember where we
were and what we doing and how we were feeling at the moment we first heard a
song.
Song helps to tell the story. It is to a song that I point you this day –
the song of Hannah. The song of Mary
(the Magnificat) is an echo of it. Enjoy
Hannah’s song of thankfulness for the birth of her first son, Samuel. It is found in First Samuel chapter two:
"My heart rejoices in the Lord!
Oh, how the Lord has blessed me!
Now I have an answer for my enemies,
as I
delight in your deliverance.
No one is holy like the Lord!
There is no one besides you;
there
is no Rock like our God.
Stop acting so proud and haughty!
Don't
speak with such arrogance!
The Lord is
a God who knows your deeds;
and he will judge
you for what you have done.
Those who were
mighty are mighty no more;
and those who were weak are now strong.
Those who were
well fed are now starving;
and those who were starving are now full.
The barren
woman now has seven children;
but the woman with many children will have no
more.
The Lord
brings both death and life;
he brings some down to the grave but raises others
up.
The Lord
makes one poor and another rich;
he brings one down and lifts another up.
He
lifts the poor from the dust –
yes, from a pile of ashes!
He
treats them like princes,
placing them in seats of honor.
For all the earth is the Lord's,
and he has set the world in order.
He
will protect his godly ones,
but the wicked will perish in darkness.
No one will succeed by strength alone.
Those who fight
against the Lord will be broken.
He thunders against them from heaven;
the Lord judges throughout the earth.
He
gives mighty strength to his king;
he increases the might of his anointed
one." (Verses 1b-10)
The song begins with the praise of the Lord. Hallelujah!
Let’s remember to always start from the place of worship and gratitude.
Leave your proud and arrogant ways behind for the Lord
will judge each of us according to our merits.
Put your pride aside and worship the Lord with all your heart, mind,
soul, and strength.
Worship the Lord for God turns the world right-side-up. We
may think God turns the world upside-down, but it is only because we have been
upside-down for so long that we THINK we are right-side-up. The mighty are weak, and the weak are
mighty. The well-fed is starving, and
the starving is well-fed. Children are
given to the childless, while the couples that have many children have no more.
Lift us up, O
Lord! We cannot succeed by our strength
alone. Help us not to fight against You,
O God. Let’s join in with how the Spirit
of the Living God is moving in our midst.
Let’s give thanks for the work of the Anointed One, the Messiah, Christ
the Lord. Then our weeping will turn to irrepressible
joy. Read from John chapter sixteen:
“Truly, you will weep and mourn over what is
going to happen to me, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will suddenly turn to wonderful joy
when you see me again. It will be like a
woman experiencing the pains of labor. When her child is born, her anguish
gives place to joy because she has brought a new person into the world. You have sorrow now, but I will see you
again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy.” (Verses 20-22)
Praise God!
Hallelujah!
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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