It’s easy to forget.
When you’re not seeing someone everyday,
When you’re not talking to them up frequently,
When you’re not praying for them regularly…
It’s easy to wake up one day and think,
Oh! I haven’t checked in with so-and-so in a long time.
We can forget.
But God doesn’t.
Hannah thought she had been forgotten by God.
She desperately wanted a child, but God had closed her womb.
In tears she goes to God and cries out for Him to remember her.
If you give me a son, I will give him back to You.
I don’t know when Hannah realized it,
but soon enough she found out that God hadn’t forgotten her.
He wasn’t jolted by her cries to action – He hadn’t been asleep.
He had known her struggle all along.
He remembered – He thought upon her.
And He gave her a son.
Samuel – heard of God.
Hannah gave Samuel back to the Lord as she said she would.
The day she left her young son at the temple to serve the Lord, she burst into song:
…There is no one besides You,
Nor is there any rock like our God…
For the LORD is a God of knowledge…
She knew that God had known about her struggle all along.
And some time later (maybe even years), God visited her again.
He took note of her! Once again He attended to her.
She became the mother of five more children.
How kind God was to Hannah.
He remembered and thought upon her.
He heard her cries and answered.
He visited her again and gave her more children.
Don’t you think He remembers you, too?
Since before you were born, He knew you.
His eyes are always upon you; He’s constantly checking your heart.
He knows the hairs on your head.
Don’t think for one minute that God doesn’t think about you constantly:
His thoughts toward you are more than the grains of sand on the seashore.
He is worthy of all our praise.
Let’s remember Him, as He remembers us.
Actively think on Him today.
Take note and thank Him for His kindness.
Let’s turn our minds and hearts to Him.
He’s so good.
Hannah is one of my favorite people mentioned in the Bible. God used her in an amazing way, despite her difficult circumstances. I go more in depth with her story in the devotional book Persevere: Comfort and Hope for Dark Days.
