Monday, December 29, 2025
ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE
1 Sam 7:15-17
15 And Samuel judged Israel all
the days of his life.
16 And he went from year to
year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all
those places.
17 And his return was to
Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built
an altar unto the LORD.
Samuel
was a circuit judge and a
worshipper of God. He was the product of a vow and a promise. His mother,
Hannah, had loaned him to the Lord all the days of his life. Now
it seems he is an older man and he had settled into a routine. Chapter eight
confirms this.
Samuel’s
sons were
made judges to take the load off, but they did not perform their duties with integrity.
It was not their youth but their character that made them poor judges. This
we know because Samuel was only twelve years old when he served in the Temple
and heard the calling voice of God.
Each
circuit ended at his home in Ramah [a high place]. There he built an altar to the
Lord. Jamieson, Fauset, and Brown say this about this home-made place of
worship: “This was a deviation from the prescribed ordinance of the law (Deut
12:5,13). The reason probably was, that at that period of public disorder the
tabernacle and its altar were both destroyed; and as Samuel, being a pious man,
was desirous of animating his devotions by prayer and sacrifice, Yahweh
sanctioned the erection, by accepting the person and services of the worshiper.
(from Jamieson, Fausset, and
Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1997-2014 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved.)
Worshippers
will worship even
if the House of Worship is in disorder. Others will not worship even if worship
is convenient.
Ps 27:4
4 One thing have I desired of
the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all
the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire
in his temple.
Lord, let me not stop short of
the tape though the race be nearly over. Let me pursue my calling all the days
of my life. AMEN
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