What Must Fall for God to Rise
Judges 6:25-32 Immediately after calling Gideon, God commanded him to tear down his father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. He was told to build a proper altar to the Lord and offer a burnt sacrifice using the wood of the Asherah pole. Though Gideon did this at night out
Ebenezer (אֶבןהָעֵזֶר): A Beacon of Hope on the Grounds of Failure
“Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, ‘Till now the Lord has helped us.’” (1 Samuel 7:12) We often remember ‘Ebenezer’ as a monument of victory. However, the origin of this name lies in the place of the most humiliating defeat
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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
