Grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people

1 Samual 2:11-36

Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord. 

If the person said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,” the servant would answer, “No, hand it over now; if you don’t, I’ll take it by force.”

This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt.

But Samuel was ministering before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod. Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to the Lord.” Then they would go home. And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.

So Eli said to them, “Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the Lord’s people is not good. If one person sins against another, God may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the Lord, who will intercede for them?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father’s rebuke, for it was the Lord’s will to put them to death.

And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people.

Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: 

Why do you scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel.

‘And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you—they will both die on the same day. I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his priestly house, and they will minister before my anointed one always. Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead, “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.

Why?

Compared with Samual and the sons of Eli, there are quiet consequences. One is to honor the Lord, another family Eli, allows his two sons' sins against the Lord.

The Lord blessed Hannah with three sons and two daughters. No child become has many children.

Eli honors his sons more than the Lord so the judgment comes upon them.

Can I like Samual grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people?

How?

May the Lord give me the word in the coming service in the church next month. Thanks to the Lord helped me know the bug in my program, it took me one month to solve this issue.