Can Any Good Come From Stress?

[549 words] Samuel was one of the best men in the Bible. We read about his good life of faith and justice in 1 Samuel, but it is a statement made hundreds of years later about him that tells us just how godly a man he was. In Jeremiah’s day the people of Judah were so wicked that no amount of praying could save the nation from punishment. God even told Jeremiah not to pray for them (Jer. 11:14). To make this point stronger, God said that even if Moses and Samuel were alive and pleaded with him to spare Judah He would not (Jer. 15:1). When God wanted to use two people as examples of godliness, He chose Moses and Samuel. Samuel was a great man in spite of unfaithful men who were close to him. He was brought up from a young age with Eli in the service…