Let us consider the child Samuel, and the lessons we can learn from him, he was to be looked after by the High Priest Eli, he had the awesome responsibility, of caring for Samuel. He appeared to have done a good job, but he had two sons who turned out bad. They would bring judgement on Eli because he never dealt with them, yes he spoke to them, but as High Priest that was not enough. The message of judgement came like this, one evening God spoke to Samuel, but he thought it was Eli calling him, but Eli assured him he hadn't called, this happened three times. On the third time Eli realised it was God ,so he told him that next time, say,'' Speak Lord for your servant is listening'', so it came to pass. God told Samuel that he was going to judge Eli and his sons, first of all as High Priest he should have dealt with his sons but he didn't ,so God was going to deal with them. The next morning Eli asked Samuel what God said, Samuel was afraid to tell him, but eventually he told him. There are a number of lessons to be learnt from this, first Eli, he paid a hard price by not dealing with his sons, godly people don't always have godly children, and there are times we have to make hard and painful decisions ,even to those nearest and dearest to us.. Samuel asked God to speak to him, be careful, for you may not like what He has to say to you. Samuel was afraid to tell Eli what God had said, so right at the beginning of his prophetic ministry, he would have to learn a very important lesson, to say things to people, that they don't want to hear, ministers of Christ must especially learn this lesson .
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