Our children are a wonderful gift. God has given them to us and we should never take that for granted. But, it can be easy to turn our children into an idol. We may cling to them tighter than we do our faith in God. As we encounter in the example of Hannah and Elkanah, they had longed to have a child for years and years, finally, God granted her the desire of their hearts, but with the condition that they would give their son back to God. As Pastor Mark points out, their willingness to release their son into God’s will demonstrates the deep level of their faith. They knew that their most important purpose in life was to serve God.