Elkanah loved Hannah, but his love for her wasn’t enough. She wanted him to give her a son who could be raised for God’s glory.
Now, it’s not that love failed; it’s just that Hannah felt as though she had failed Elkanah.
You must give Hannah credit, though; she didn’t quit. She turned to God and asked that God intercede on her behalf, which He did. When you feel as though you are personally failing in your marriage relationship, you can do one of two things: give in or pray up. Which will you choose? The same can be said for life in general.
Some onlookers thought it was unusual, but few noticed when the pastor wheeled into the church parking lot in a borrowed pickup truck. But everyone’s eyes were upon him when he backed the truck across the lawn to his study door. Refusing comment or assistance, he began to empty his office onto the truck bed. He was impassive and systematic: first the desk drawers, then the files, and last his library of books, which he tossed carelessly into a heap, many of them flopping askew like slain birds. His task done, the pastor left the church and, as was later learned, drove some miles to the city dump where he committed everything to the waiting garbage. It was his way of putting behind him the overwhelming sense of failure and loss that he had experienced in the ministry. This young, gifted pastor was determined never to return to the ministry. Indeed, he never did.
In life, as in marriage, you can give in or pray up. The choice is yours.
What to do:
✞Pray up or you will give in.
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