Today we see the touching way that God revealed to Samuel how to listen for God's voice, and at the same time how he again warned Eli of impending disaster. Eli was incredibly able to recognize the way the Lord works, but at the same time was unconcerned about how God's words applied to him. Let us not be like him! Here we can make a link with our reading today in Romans. God's judgment will come to us just as surely as it did to Eli's sons.
Psalm 92 is another beautiful psalm of praise.
In today's reading, Paul continues to prove the man is not “basically good” (which one keeps hearing in Hollywood films and on the television). Not only are we sinful, but we tend to be self-righteous— which in itself is sinful. The ‘bad news’ is compounded in these additional points: “A day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. … There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil— especially for the Jews, but also for the non-Jews.”
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