Day 66 – November 27, 2023: I Samuel 1-5 and Psalm 8

O Lord, our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth. That is a song that I used to loved to sing as I was growing up. Here is a link to it, and it is a direct use of Psalm 8.

The story of Samuel is one that we would do well to remember. We are still in the judges and Eli is still judging. In fact, we read that he judged Israel for 40 years. His sons were evil and did was what evil in the sight of the Lord. It used to be that Judges would say that the people of Israel would do evil in the sight of the Lord, but here it was just two of them. They would steal from the sacrifices and they would sleep with the women who were helping in the temple. It was an all around display of sin in every capacity possible. God has Samuel in mind to take over once Eli dies. Eli dies by breaking his neck from falling over once he hears about the ark of God being captured. He is more upset about that than he is about his sons being killed. That should say a lot. But Samuel is now equipped to do God’s bidding. You also see that the nation of Israel is ready to accept Samuel as the heir to the religious throne for Israel.