Hannah: Learning to Be Someone

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LESSON 3

*October 9 - 15

Hannah: Learning to Be Someone

SABBATH AFTERNOON

Read for This Week's Study:

1 Samuel 1; 2:1–11, 21; Job 2:12, 13; Matt. 6:19, 20; Luke 12:16–21.

Memory Text:

“Then Hannah prayed and said: ‘My heart rejoices in the Lord; in the Lord my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance. There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God’” (1 Samuel 2:1, 2, NIV).

One of the great struggles that many people face is the sense of their own self-worth. What are we worth in this world? What can one life mean amid teeming billions? We read about wars in which millions have perished, often without a trace. Every day thousands are born and thousands die. We sense massive forces over which we have no control, which can run over us and our dreams as quickly as a truck does a bug on the road. How, amid such a powerful and overwhelming flurry, can we get a sense of our own meaning and purpose? Do we even have any? The Bible, of course, teaches that we do, that we are beings created in the image of God. We’re important because we are important to God. Who cares what others think of you, if the God who holds the whole world in His hands loves you? His love, above all, is what counts. This week, by looking at the life of Hannah, a woman without any claim to political or religious greatness, we will catch a glimpse of a God who loves us intimately and personally and of a God who tells us that we are somebody, even though it’s easy to get the message from the world that we are nobody.

*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, October 16.

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