1 Sa 2:3 (KJV) A Warning To The Arrogant And Proud
“Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.”
- 1 Samuel 2:3 (KJV)
“Talk no more so exceedingly proud:” Hannah certainly had her rival in mind but she also saw Peninnah as a representative of all the proud and arrogant people in the world. Hannah wisely told the proud to “talk no more,” and to “let no arrogancy come out of your mouth.” Pride can be expressed in many ways, but it usually is expressed by our words. It would be better if proud people just did not talk so much.
“For the Lord is a God of knowledge:” This, of course, is the best reason to forsake our pride. Next to God, we know nothing. He knows us, and “by Him actions are weighed.”
“Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”
- Daniel 5:27 (KJV)
God bless!
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1 Samuel 2:4-8 (KJV) Hannah’s Glory To God
“The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.”
- 1 Samuel 2:4-8 (KJV)
We should be humble before God because He knows how to humble the strong. “They that were full” are now begging and “she that hath many children is waxed feeble.” If we are strong or exalted now, we should keep humble because the Lord can change our place quickly.
“They that stumbled are girded with strength. They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven.” We should be humble before God because He knows how to exalt the weak. If we are weak or in a low place now we should wait humbly before God and let Him lift us up as we read in The Book of Luke:
“And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
- Luke 14:7-11 (KJV)
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