Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.
At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was.
(1 Samuel 3:1-3 ESV)
People were not hearing from God. It's not like God had nothing to say; they were not ready to hear. With the prevailing culture of radical individualism, and the corruption of most things spiritually, it was if everyone was ignoring God. Eli even stopped hanging out near the Ark, preferring his comfy bed to rest his wear bones. Then there was Samuel, with the night light on. He was waiting in the right place, in the quiet of the night, to hear the voice of God. As we will see, even he did not know what he was listening for, but he was there, at the right place, faithfully serving God in small ways, close to the heart of God. Have we heard from Him lately? Are we positioning ourselves to hear?
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