SAMUEL

Read First Samuel Chapters 2 & 3

Hushed was the evening hymn,

The temple courts were dark.

The lamp was burning dim

Before the sacred ark,

When suddenly a voice divine

Rang through the silence of the shrine.

The old man, make and mild

The priest of Israel, slept.

His watch the temple child,

The little Levite kept.

And what from Eli’s sense was sealed

The Lord to Hannah’s son revealed.

O give me Samuel’s ear,

The open ear, O Lord,

Alive and quick to hear

Each whisper of Your word,

Like him to answer at Your call,

And to obey You first of all.

O give me Samuel’s heart,

A lowly heart, that's waits

Where in your house You are,

Or watches at Your gates

By day and night, a heart that still

Moves at the breeding of Your will.

O give me Samuel’s mind,

A sweet, unmurmuring faith,

Obedient and resigned

To You in life and death,

That I may read with childlike eyes

Truths that are hidden from the wise.

Taken from THE WAY OF LIFE POSTAL BIBLE MAGAZINE February 1966.