8/17/2023 0 Comments In due time meaning![]() “It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD” ( 1 Samuel 1:20). Those three hopeful words are “in due time.” In the middle of Hannah’s story, after she cried out to God in anguish and offered to give back to God what she wanted most, we read the glorious sentence “and the Lord remembered her” – followed by three words that give us hope and help us understand a little of what God might be doing in our lives, too, when we don’t understand His timing. ![]() …because the Lord had chosen someone else?Īs disturbing as those words are - that imply God is in control over the things that we long for or hurt over the most - I have come to trust in the three words that often come in the middle of our story of struggle. Maybe you’ve experienced those four – or seven – disturbing words in your life, too. …because the Lord had withheld another child. And within those seven stinging words are four words that explain – or don’t really explain – the troubles we experience today, too: because the Lord had…. And to make matters worse, she was constantly mocked and ridiculed by her husband’s other wife for her inability to conceive a child.īut when we get to those seven disturbing words that explain, but don’t really explain, why Hannah couldn’t have a child, it’s difficult to not blame God for her misery. She didn’t seem to be asking God for much. She wanted to be a mom just like every woman around her. In fact, those seven disturbing words are found twice in just two verses, so we don’t miss the fact that God was the One who was withholding from Hannah what she wanted most ( 1 Samuel 1:4-5). In the Old Testament story of Hannah, I found staring at me, like a dagger, seven words about why Hannah could not conceive a child: because the Lord had closed her womb.
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