God’s Vision is Greater than My Smallness
Judges 6:11-24 While Gideon was secretly threshing wheat in a winepress to hide from the Midianites, the angel of the Lord appeared and said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” Gideon was bewildered. The situation was dire, and he was the least in his family. He tried to decline God’s call based on his
Crying Out from the Caves of Affliction
Judges 6:1-10 When Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord, He gave them into the hands of the Midianites for seven years. The oppression was so severe that the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves, and strongholds. All their crops and livestock were pillaged, leaving Israel “so impoverished” that
Like the Rising Sun in Its Strength
“So may all your enemies perish, Lord! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. Then the land had peace forty years(Judg. 5:31)” The song of Deborah and Barak concludes with a powerful prayer of blessing. In contrast to the futile end of those who oppose the
The Heart that Commits vs The Heart that Hesitates
Judges 5:1-18 After the victory, Deborah and Barak sang a song. It begins with the praise: “When the people willingly offer themselves—praise the Lord!” When God marched forth, the earth quaked, the heavens poured rain, and the seemingly invincible enemy cavalry was swept away by the Kishon River. This victory was not a triumph of
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The Unexpected Instrument of Victory
Judges 4:11-24 Sisera’s army, with nine hundred iron chariots, seemed invincible, but they crumbled instantly when God moved. Sisera, the commander fleeing for his life, arrived at the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. When Barak hesitated and missed his glory, God had already prepared an ordinary woman named Jael. She comforted