“The Sunday School version of this, which always has to have a moral of the
story and an application, will tell us that we should be like Samuel:
Listen for God’s voice and answer. Speak, Lord, I’m listening. But that is
not at all the message of this passage. We are meant to see God’s
faithfulness to his covenant people despite the rampant sin and rebellion
taking place at that spiritually benighted worship center. No priest was
ministering before the Lord. They had left a small child to fulfill their
duties. One who did not even fulfill the requirements to be a priest on
many specific points of OT law, who had been dressed by his mom, and placed
there by the will of God and according to Hannah’s oath. A child, of whom
it says he ‘did not yet know the Lord(v.7)…We should not see Samuel as
doing (or being) anything special here. We should see only that “...God
chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is
weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised
in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that
are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. (1
Corinthians 1:27-28)”

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