Hanna's prayer

Hanna is a familiar person in the Bible as a woman of prayer. Her prayer is good example to many women.  She prayed to the Lord with sincere heart for getting baby. Her background (1Sam 1:2-7) shows that how she had earnest heart about her prayer request. It was not just for having the baby. The situation which she had no children attracted her social position as an Elkanah’s wife, loneness and her life condition.  Her prayer started with grief. Finally, she vowed to the Lord. 1Sam 1:11 says it “…I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and a razor shall never come on his head.” That is afraid vow to many married women. Parents are just physical parents to the children. Real parent is only God. However, most women ignore that fact, because the children are bear with mothers’ suffering for ten months. Hence, the Hanna’s prayer was not easy. It was confession of faith. More amazing thing was the grief prayer changed Thanksgiving prayer. Her prayer is not just knowledge of life. The prayer showed that she gain wisdom that she got painful moment over. The Lord listen her prayer then, He gave the son who named Samuel to Hanna. Samuel means that I have asked him of the Lord. She actually brought Samuel up as she vowed. She bore the great prophet Samuel by her sincere prayer.

Why the Lord did not give her a baby? Although she was a rightous woman, she had to pray with grief because of no children. The answer is that was his will. Human cannot know his will. People have many moments with not understandable. Nevertheless, God always gives good to us. He wanted Hanna prayed through her situation, she learned His will through her prayer and she had more sincere faith His will.