‘Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight’ – Hannah was comforted by this. ‘So the woman went her way, and did eat.
This is the remedy for us in our sorrows, ‘and her countenance was no more sad.’ We should take note of that. Have you got a great problem and a difficulty and something which deeply concerns you? Then you should lay before the Lord, and you should try to bring under control all your grief and your worry and your concern, and you should say, ‘I have left it with the Lord.’ It is true that there are some worries that it is not easy to do that with. If for instance you have got a loved one, who is in very great danger, you are bound to think of that again and again, but there are many other troubles we have which, having laid them before the Lord, we should be able to forget. For instance if somebody has hurt you or wronged you, don’t just let it simmer in your mind. Bring the matter before the Lord, and leave it with him, and don't go on coming back to it repeatedly.