Please read the whole chapter and feel free to post a reply even before you read my thoughts.
Hannah's song reminds me both of the Psalms and of Mary's song in Luke 1. What is interesting in both Hannah and Mary's songs is that God's mercy toward them is connected with his justice against the wicked and mighty. What I often forget is that good news for some can be bad news for others. It also reminds me that I am often quick to distance God from His acts of justice. I only want to talk about the nice things He does and fail to communicate that He gives and takes away. Everything is under His control. This of course also makes Jesus work even more amazing, because God carries out His justice against His own Son, so that we might receive mercy.
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