Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Daily Lectionary: 2 Samuel 12:1-25; 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked for him from the Lord." (1 Samuel 1:20) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The conception and birth of the child named Samuel was miraculous. His barren mother, Hannah, was gifted with a son. Israel was gifted with a great prophet. It was Samuel who reluctantly anointed Saul to be king over Israel and later would anoint the shepherd-king, David, to rule in place of Saul. Samuel's work as a prophet was not what we would call successful. The people, more often than not, would ignore Samuel's preaching and thereby ignore the God whose Word he spoke. That is nothing new for God's servants. So why appoint a day to remember another rejected prophet of God? Well, days commemorating saints of old aren't really about those saints. They are about remembering the work of God through them. Samuel served as God's hand and voice in anointing David as king o