I Samuel 2:7
This book cannot be discussed thoroughly unless Samule’s mother Hannah is mentioned. The first two chapters reveal the kind of woman she was, not only to her son Samuel, but to her God as well. Briefly, we see her petitioning God for a child, the bitterness of her soul, her prayer and her weeping. Even the old priest, Eli did not understand the pouring out of her soul before the Lord. God heared her prayer, saw her weeping, honoured her vow, and when her time was come, she bore a son and called him Samuel. In this experience, she became keenly aware of God’s hand and His providence and His dealings with her. In the realization that she had been exalted before the Lord she also recongnised the need to be brought low. Hence she cried.

THE LORD HUMBLES AND HE EXAL EXALTS TS (2:7b)
God does this in temporal things when it is for our good. He strips us and lays us bare, or He prospers us in all we do. But in a spiritual point of view, He does so in the experience of all His children. He strips them of pride, lays them in the dust and brings them to self despair; they are ready to give up all hope, and conclude that the hand of the Lord is gone out against them. But we must feel that we are lost before we shall seek the Saviour. We must be stripped before we shall gratefully receive and thankfully wear the robe of the Redeemer’s righteousness. When He was brought us low, He will lift us up. When He has stripped us, He will clothe us. He will send us the Spirit of adoption robe us in the garments of salvation, assure us of an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled that fades not away. The lower we sink in self despair, the higher we rise in the enjoyment of God’s free grace. Lie low if you would rise high.