Thursday, April 7, 2011

Are you drunk?

1 Samuel 1:13,14 "Hannah was praying in her heart and her lips were moving but her voice was nit heard. Eli thought she was drunk and said to her "how long will you keep on getting drink? Gt rid of your wine."
How clueless was the man of God? Here is a woman in distress, who had theoretically appeared at the temple distressed 3x a year for a long time, and I stead of offering compassion, wisdo
, or prayer; the best he can come up with is "quit drinking". Really?
How often do we do that? Maybe we misunderstand. Maybe we are just to calloused. Maybe "quit drinking is today's version of "just get over it."

I don't want to be that way. I don't want to sideline people's pain because I am not sensitive enough to the Spirit. I want to feel compassion. Lord help me to love your children.

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