by Terry Wane Benton<\/p>\n
Peninnah provoked<\/em> Hannah severely to “make her miserable” <\/em>(1 Sam.1:6). If you don’t have anything better in life to do than to make someone miserable, you have made yourself pretty worthless. The story shows a serious flaw in the arrangement of polygamy, but it also shows a flaw in personal character. Loving your neighbor as yourself and the golden rule are surely not observed when you make it your aim to bully or otherwise make someone miserable.<\/p>\n Don’t be a Peninnah!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Terry Wane Benton Peninnah provoked Hannah severely to “make her miserable” (1 Sam.1:6). If you don’t have anything better in life to do than to make someone miserable, you have made yourself pretty worthless. The story shows a serious flaw in the arrangement of polygamy, but it also shows a flaw in personal character.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1166],"class_list":["post-68215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bullies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55984,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/dont-jump-to-conclusions\/","url_meta":{"origin":68215,"position":0},"title":"Don’t Jump to Conclusions","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"by Allen Dvorak via Gospel Power Vol. 15, No. 14, April 6, 2008. 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Hamilton Text: Matthew 6:25-34 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0People spend a lot of anxious time over things that are really out of their control \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A lot of teenagers worry about how tall they will be as an adult - Matthew 6:27 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Older adults begin to worry whether gray hairs are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46324,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-am-miserable-after-my-divorce\/","url_meta":{"origin":68215,"position":4},"title":"I am miserable after my divorce","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I recently got a divorce, not by my choosing, but because of my actions -- I cheated on my wife on numerous occasions. 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