Through the lens of Woman

Some of the deepest worship in Scripture comes from women who have memorized Exodus 34.

Hannah’s prayer in 1 Samuel 2 sings of the Father who raises the poor from the dust and shows mercy to the barren. Mary’s Magnificat in Luke 1 sings of His mercy from generation to generation (Luke 1:50). Both women are quoting Exodus 34. Both of them have known that mercy is the deepest name of God.

There is a particular gift many women carry — the ability to remember the Father’s mercy when everyone else has forgotten it. In hard rooms. In hospitals. At gravesides. At the end of long disappointments. The women keep singing the Magnificat. The Father is full of grace. He has been all along.

If you have been one of the women keeping the song alive in your circle, in your church, in your family — that is real ministry. Hannah and Mary are still in the room. The Father gives the song to women who will sing it.

One small thing today: hum a line of the Magnificat or read 1 Samuel 2 out loud. Let it remind you whose name is mercy and how that mercy has reached your generation through women like you.