Growing in Favor with God and People

Good morning 🌄

This morning’s word from Scripture…📖

1 Samuel 2:26.

“And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.”
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Eli the priest had two sons.
Verse 12 describes these sons of Eli…
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“The sons of Eli were wicked men; they did not know the LORD.”
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To be wicked means to continually think about and do evil things.
They had no fear of the LORD…😨
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These two sons had taken up priestly duties in their father Eli’s household…but in the end they perished…😓
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But Samuel revered God and honored and obeyed Eli, his teacher.
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I think the people around him saw this🧐 and gradually came to trust Samuel❗️

There are several kinds of “education.”
The first is education for life.
✳️ Why do we live?
It teaches us our purpose in life.

The second is spiritual education.
God created human beings with a purpose.
Those created by God come to worship Him.
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The third is social education.
It teaches that society has rules, common sense, and manners.

The fourth is intellectual education.
We go to school and study subjects we will need in the future.

Someone once said…
“Children do not always grow up as their parents wish.
But they do grow up following what their parents actually do…😓”
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Luke 2:52 says…
“Jesus grew in wisdom and stature,
and in favor with God and people.”
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Something similar is written there.
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Some of you are raising children right now.
My prayer is that they will grow into people loved by God and others.
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Proverbs 22:6.

“Train a young person in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Shalom 😃