Today's ODB is exactly the passage where I'm preparing to read for tonight's bible studies on the character - Samuel.
http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb.shtml
Reading from chapter 1 of the book of Samuel, refreshed myself again of his humble brought up. Samuel's mother, Hannah, was a woman with great anguish adn grief who prayed in her heart and poured out her soul to the Lord. She yearned for a child. God remembered her and granted her Samuel. The name means "Because I asked the Lord for him".
We often pray to God and ask Him for a lot of things, some are the greater will of God, some personal needs. No matter what, we believe and hope that God would "listen" to our prayers, or to some extent would "answer" our prayers. Reflecting from the flip side of the coin, do we "listen" to His voice ? Do we ever recognise His voice ? When and how does He speak ? It can be a hymn you sing at Sunday worship, a verse in the daily devotion you read, or the small voice from the Holy Spirit as you encounter temptation, or the bible passage that linger in your head after the Sunday sermon.
In John 10:27 我 的 羊 聽 我 的 聲 音 ， 我 也 認 識 他 們 ， 他 們 也 跟 著 我 。
I'm sure God who created the tremendous heaven and earth got bountiful ways to speak to us, only if we would listen. Let's be His sheep and practise to hear His voice any time, anywhere.
Samuel 3: 9 因 此 以 利 對 撒 母 耳 說 ： 你 仍 去 睡 罷 ； 若 再 呼 喚 你 ， 你 就 說 ： 耶 和 華 啊 ， 請 說 ， 僕 人 敬 聽 ！ 撒 母 耳 就 去 ， 仍 睡 在 原 處 。
10 耶 和 華 又 來 站 著 ， 像 前 三 次 呼 喚 說 ： 撒 母 耳 啊 ！ 撒 母 耳 啊 ！ 撒 母 耳 回 答 說 ： 請 說 ， 僕 人 敬 聽 ！
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