Here’s a little known fact about our own Pastor Ken…did you know that he thought about trying out for “Jeopardy”? Several years ago, a try-outs crew visited the Utica area. Lucy had said to him, “Why don’t you go?” But PK didn’t. He thought, “What if I succeed in the try-outs, but then I get on the show and then it really goes south?” The fear of, “What if I succeed”, only to later lose is something that we all struggle with in one way or another.
In our text, we’re going to meet a woman who was given a great blessing - a son. This was something she’d always wanted, and at the right time, the desire of her heart came to be. You could say she experienced success in this matter. But the story goes on from there, taking some turns that the woman was certainly not expecting. Not even the prophet knew what was to be in this instance. But God was at work all along, in the midst of success and loss. Our text will challenge us with this question: Can we trust God to be with us through all our losses and successes, and in the midst all the twists and turns of our lives’ stories?
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