Gideon has finally accepted the fact that God is going to use him to deliver Israel. But wait! There’s more. That army he was depending on to help him is going to go through some SERIOUS downsizing. ♥ ♦ ♥ Now that Gideon has accepted that the Lord is going to be fighting for him […]
Gideon is nervous. He wants ABSOLUTE PROOF that he is following God’s direction. He lays two tests out for God. Tests that NO ONE ELSE could possibly do but Him. I am going to come right out and admit that I LOVE the idea of “fleece laying” but don’t do it enough in my life. […]
The altars of Baal and Asherah are missing in Gideon’s town. Who could have done this (wink, wink)! Somebody is going to pay say the towns people!!! We are told how “all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east” (verse 33a) have been taking everything from Israel for seven years. During […]
We meet God’s next “might man of valor”; Gideon. He is a quiet and unassuming and not sure if it is God who is calling him to rise up. The Midianites are taking every last scrap of food they can find. Apparently they weren’t finding it all though because Gideon was threshing some wheat in […]
Israel is under the thumb (or tent peg) of yet another one of the nations around it. This time it is Midian. The people cry out for help and God answers them with the REASON for their distress. When I look at our reading today I don’t see a military power oppressing Israel. I see […]
