Larry Devich
Saturday, September 02, 2006
  Saturday in Week 12 of Pentecost- Commemoration of Hannah
Daily readings
Judges 9:22-25, 50-57
Acts 4:32-5:11
John 2:13-25

Psalms for today
Morning 9-11 Evening 12-17

Hannah was the favored wife of Elkanah, the Ephraimite, and the devout mother of the prophet Samuel. He was born to her after years of bitter barrenness (1 Sam 1:6-8) and fervent prayers for a son (1:9-18). After she weaned her son, Hannah expressed her gratitude by returning him for service in the House of the Lord at Shiloh (1:24-28). Her prayer (psalm) of thanksgiving (2:1-10) begins with the words, "My heart exults in Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord." This song foreshadows the Magnificat, the Song of Mary, centuries later (Lk 1:46-55). The name Hannah derives from the Hebrew word for "grace." She is remembered and honored for joyfully having kept the vow she made before her son's birth and offering him for lifelong service to God.
[From "Commemorations Biographies," Lutheran Service Book, LCMS Commission on Worship]

Higher Things reflection

Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Make haste to help me, O Lord! Let them be ashamed and confounded who seek my life.” (Introit for the 12th Sunday after Trinity)

Make haste! These words begin the services of Matins and Vespers. Make haste! It’s almost as if we’re telling the Lord to get moving, hurry up, chop, chop! No time to spare - “Make haste, O God, to deliver me!”

We pray, “make haste” because unless the Lord is with us every moment, we don’t stand a chance. We don’t pray “make haste” in such a way that we think we are bossing the Lord around, but we pray “make haste” in all boldness and confidence in our Lord, who never spares a moment in hastily delivering and helping His people. It is in solemn awareness of our own helplessness and need of deliverance that we desperately plea for the Lord’s help. It is in confidence in the One who has bestowed upon us His Word of promise through the proclamation of the Gospel and the Sacraments that we may plead with such bold and confident words. It is He who is our deliverer, our “ever-help” in time of need, who hears our faithful plea. The Lord loves to be reminded of His promises. “Make haste,” we cry, and He doesn’t spare a second to make good on His promise: He delivers Jesus – our only deliverance and help.

Why then does it seem, when we are in desperate need, as though the Lord is taking His time? Why is it that, amidst the suffering of this life, it appears as though even a thousand pleas to the Lord are heard without reply? It is at precisely these moments when we must all the more boldly and confidently bid our Lord to “make haste.” Even though it seems as if He is doing nothing, in confidence you may trust that He is already your helper and deliverer.

He hastens to deliver and help us but not in such a way that He immediately removes all pains and discomforts of this body and life. On the contrary, it is in such haste that the Lord enters into our suffering and despair. This is the way of the Cross! Jesus did not merely numb the pain of sin and death; He actually entered into it on our behalf. When Jesus enters into our suffering and death, making it His own at Calvary, the suffering and death that constantly seeks to claim our lives is confounded. At your Baptism His name was placed upon you through water and the word. Because His name is upon you, when the suffering of this life would dare to seek your life, it finds nothing other than the death and life of Christ. In the midst of suffering and the cross, we plea, “Make haste,” and the Lord’s word upon you speaks, “You are delivered.” In the name of Jesus, Amen.

 
Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura
Grace alone, Faith alone, Scripture alone

1 Corinthians 2:2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

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