My 2025 Theme Verses: Ezra 7:10 (ESV) For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Daniel 1:8 (ESV) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Do we have "conditional" dedications to God? 1 Samuel 1-5
Commitment to leave your son with a gluttoness priest takes a firm belief in the sovereignty of God!!! Hannah had made a commitment to God that if He gave her a son she would dedicate him forever to The Lord for service. Here she is dropping the boy off to Eli and his sons and she has to have some concern that Eli was a glutton and the boys were rebellious and disobedient. However, our outward circumstances and/or inward fears don't negate our vows to God. We can take back our commitment because things didn't look right to us or feel proper. Hannah new the who God was and trusted in the sovereignty of God (see 2:5-10). Her previous prayer was full of statements to the fact of God's sovereign rule. She was willing to accept that if God provided the child she had asked for, He could care for the child she provided Him. Abraham had a similar thought when he took Isaac, the son of his old age, to the mountain to sacrifice him. God provides children and then when we give them back in dedication we can "take them back" because we don't like the circumstances. We have to trust God for the provision and the protection. He is not God of one and only "god" of the other. Let's make sure we don't do "conditional" dedications. Like Hannah we need to make sure we are sincere and committed to allowing God to have our children so He can do with them what He wants.
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