1 Samuel 2:3

Let not arrogancy. Hannah could have felt a personal supremacy over Peninnah, in view of the wonderful experience that had come to her. But do not the words of these verses indicate, rather, Hannah’s yearning that her rival might see the beauty of full surrender to God, and realize the worthlessness of arrogance? Certainly no one would charge Hannah with a “holier than thou” attitude toward Peninnah after the way in which God had vindicated her humble consecration. If Christ had tears in His voice as He pronounced woes on the Pharisees (SC 13; DA 619, 620), may not Hannah’s spirit of self-sacrifice in giving Samuel to the Lord have so touched Peninnah’s heart that she understood anew how God weighs actions? Those who, like Peninnah, feel strong in their own might, He suffers to reap the fruit of that selfishness, which is spiritual death. But even those who are spiritually dead He is able to make alive. Christ offered Judas the very same opportunities that He offered Peter, yet one surrendered and the other did not.