I shall not be moved. From what will we not be moved? We will not be moved from faith in God, His Son and the Holy Spirit. Just as a child, we hold dear the same knowledge that the world was planned by God, made for Him and created by Him. Telling a child about God making the world and declaring each day’s creation as “Good” is a time of joy and amazement. Explaining the true account of how the world began and who God is to an adult who was deprived of this information as a child actually is as exciting to the teacher as it is to the student hearing the truth for the first time. Colossians 1:16 reads, “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him” (NKJV). We will not be moved from the knowledge that Jesus is the Christ, the One who, with the Father, created all things. The proof of His Deity is revealed to us by the words of God Himself who claimed such with audible words. “And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased’” (Matthew 3:17). We know Jesus is the Son because He fits every prediction uttered by prophets for hundreds of years. The miracles He performed demonstrated perfect teamwork with God. The song, “I

Most of us looooove little babies; many young women get ‘baby fever’ after they have been married for a while. Hannah did! She longed for a baby. To make matters worse, she was the second wife of Elkanah, who had children by his first wife, Peninnah, who rubbed it in and made life miserable for Hannah. No doubt, Peninnah was extremely jealous because Elkanah loved Hannah and showed it. (I feel a little sorry for Peninnah, as well.) How blessed we are to be under the law of Christ and do not have to deal with several wives for one husband! Elkanah, as husbands today, thought he was better than ten sons but Hannah knew better. When one longs for a child, then a husband cannot fill that void. The love God gives us for a child is different from the love He gives us for a husband, though both are wonderful. So Hannah cried, and cried, and cried and did not eat and prayed, and prayed and prayed. At Shiloh, the principle place of worship in those days, Hannah prayed silently, lips moving, tears streaming in anguish, begging God for a child and even trying to make a deal with God. She promised that if God would give her a son she would never cut his hair, like the vow of Sampson’s mother, and she would give him back. Eli, the priest, observed her strange behavior, thought she was drunk and reprimanded her, until Hannah became alert and explained that she was