Authority - who has it?
1 Samuel 2:1,4-8; Mark 1:21-28
Eli is too fast to judge Hannah... what permits him to do that? Hannah points out to him that he need not be true merely because he is in authority...nor is it taken for granted that he is better because of that same fact. Eli was wrong and Hannah was there standing tall in her total fidelity to God who had mercy on her. In the Gospel the pharisees wonder from where Jesus got his authority: ofcourse from the total fidelity to the One who sent him. With that absolute fidelity and uncompromising surrender to the Lord, Jesus could say anything and it would happen!