Jdg 6:12 The angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, ” The LORD is with you mighty warrior .”
Jdg 6:13 And Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”
For seven years , the Midianites had consistently wrecked havoc against the Israelites. They camped on the land and ruined their crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. The Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the LORD for help.
The angel found Gideon threshing wheat at a place of privacy. He was hiding from the Midianites because he feared they would take it a way as soon as it was threshed. The greetings delivered to Gideon must have left him not only bewildered but perplexed. He wondered where the Lord had been as they continued being humiliated by their enemies.
God chooses men and women he has qualified to accomplish his purposes regardless of their personal prowess. What matters is not how we see ourselves but who God says we are. God knows not only what he has deposited in us but also who is in us. You are stronger than you think and as far as God is concerned , you are a Hero! – The Lord is with you, mighty warrior!
Further readings:
Deu 31:6-8
Jos 1:5
Luk 1:28
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