Grief Game
“Then she made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.”” I Samuel 1:11 NKJV Nobody cares about the skills of the wicked heart in the main-bowl for grief game. The unregenerate hearts are skillful in the business of exchanging bitterness for grief. Particularly when the game is between God and the afflicted soul, almost everyone within our sphere of influence will share from the exchange of blame and bitterness. That was the expectation of the rival of Hannah when it was clear that ‘the LORD had closed her womb’ . Notwithstanding, the righteous is expected to have a different disposition when it appears the Lord is strangely throwing the grief at him. While many in Hannah’s shoe would have thrown the grief card or bitterness bac...