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(Part Two)

February 07

Continuing yesterday’s devotion about Hannah, let us notice her song of triumph (really a prayer) found in the second chapter of the first book of Samuel. The song and prayer of Mary, the mother of Jesus, following His birth a thousand years later, has similarities indicating that Mary obviously knew of Hannah’s Song.

In that song, Hannah prayed for those who stumble and for the hungry; she thanked God for supplying food and for His help, as she sang, “And lifts the needy from the ash heap.”

Every year during Samuel’s growing period, Hannah made him a coat or a robe to fit the office Samuel gradually assumed in God’s sanctuary. Hannah was a practical, loving, caring, prayerful mother. After Samuel, Hannah had five more children, three sons and two daughters.

Many of us were fortunate to have had practical, loving, caring, and prayerful mothers— mothers worthy of praise. We may be doubly fortunate to have had these praiseworthy women as wives and also as mothers to our own children.

The book of Proverbs has an epilogue to end the final, the thirty–first chapter. It is made up of 22 verses and is titled “The Wife of Noble Character,” one of the finest tributes to womanhood in all of literature. The last few lines go like this:

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;

But a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Give her the reward she has earned,

And let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

Fortunately, those fine qualities that fitted Hannah are still present in many of the women of today.