What do you do when God answers a prayer? You respond with a song of praise!
That's what Hannah did. As the wife of Elkanah, Hannah desperately wanted to conceive a child but had been unable to do so. Still, she did not give up. In chapter one of 1 Samuel, Hannah steadfastly prayed about her desire to give her husband a child. And the good news, according to 1:19 is that "God remembered her." Hannah did conceive and gave birth to a son, Samuel, who became a great Old Testament prophet.
In 1 Samuel 2:2, Hannah prayed, There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides You; there is no rock like our God.
To pray that God is holy to acknowledge that there is no one whose majesty and glory is greater than God's. He is above all things. To pray there is no one besides You is to confess that our God is the one true God. All others are just pretenders. To pray that God is the rock is to point to the strong fortress of protection He offers His people. We are moved to join the hymnwriter and sing, "On Christ the solid rock I stand; all other ground is sinking sand."
Hannah sets a good example for us - in our prayers, in our conversation, in our singing - let's be sure to praise the rock that is our God!
