Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
She had found out God’s method in providence, for how sweetly she sings, “The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.” She knew that this was always God’s way-to overturn those who are strong in self, and to set up those who are weak. It is God’s way to unite the strong with weakness, and to bless the weak with strength. It is God’s peculiar way, and he abides by it. The full he empties, and the empty he fills. Those who boast of the power to live he slays; and those who faint before him as dead, he makes alive.
