Are You Really Sure?
Gideon has already obeyed God and been covered by his protection as we saw yesterday. Now the Midianites, Amalekites and others are no longer content to make raids on the Promised Land, they are set for a battle and gather their forces beside the Jordan.
Gideon wants to check that God is really all-powerful and on his side:
Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised - look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said." And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
Then Gideon said to God, "Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew." That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.
Judges 6: 36-40 [NIV]
It is natural for people to look for a sign that it is really God speaking, and Gideon famously wants to perform a double check on the miracle asking for first one miracle then the opposite. Perhaps he felt doubt that the first miracle was just some natural phenomenon that he hadn't experienced before? - Do you hear God speaking to you?
- How do you test and discern that the voice is from God?
- Can you turn your doubts into faith like Gideon, and later Thomas the disciple?
Pray for faith the size of a mustard seed that is capable of moving mountains and defeating armies.
Dave MacLellan
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