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Questions From Gideon
Last week we started this journey on questions that Gideon asks.
The first question is does God really care about us?
They were under duress and needed God’s help, but they couldn’t find it.
We find later that it was due to their own sin and lessons they had to learn.
God cares for us which is why he will discipline us and then we come to
What’s the big question?
Does God Know What He Is Doing?
At times it seems undoubtedly like he doesn’t.
When I was in my early 20’s my Dad and I went to go buy a new truck that I could drive to college.
We found one, a beautiful red Chevy Colarado 2 door.
Beth called it a baby truck, but I fell in love the second I saw it.
The issue was that it was just out of my price range.
I couldn’t afford the payments.
So my dad went through and started negotiating with the guy.
They got close to my price range but couldn’t quite match it.
I was devistated.
I saw this truck which only had 13 miles on it slipping from my hands.
My dad, realizing that we were at an impass, told me to get my stuff and started heading for the door.
HE shook the mans hand and we walked out.
I was protesting all the way and a bit angry because I knew he could do better.
Just as we took 10 steps outside the door the sales manager came bolting out of the door yelling for us.
My dad turned around and immediately told him that he wasn’t buying the truck because it’s priced too high.
The man began to apologize and stated that there were incentives the sales person didn’t know about and that he could get the truck just under my ability to make the monthly payment.
We walked back in signed the papers and I left happy with my new beautiful red truck.
I didn’t trust the process.
At that moment I saw my dad a s big mean jerk who stopped me from getting what I wanted.
Mean while he had it all planned out, or so he stated.
I am not sure he ever planned for the manager running out, but it was a gamble and it worked.
As Christians we begin to cry and complain about how unfair life is and how mean our dad is and we begin to ask does God even know what he is doing.
Unlike my father, I know God not only has a plan, but knows (because he isn’t bound by time) how it will all unfold.
There isn’t a surprise for God and yet when our life journey takes a detour we tend to get upset instead of patiently enduring.
It has often ben said that God’s commandments are God’s enablements.
That once God has called and commissioned us, all we have to do is obey by faith, and He will do the rest.
Like Moses, when Gideon recieved the call from God he began to list excuses for why he couldn’t do it.
Gideon began to state don’t you understand how insignificant I am.
My clan is in the ghetto.
I am the lowest on the totum pole in this gheto, but what Gideon was really saying was
God because I am weak you cannot be strong.
Because I am insignificant you are insignificant.
The worst thing you can do when God calls you is begin to tell him how insignificant you are because he created you.
He position you.
It would be like the rook from chess turning to the chest master and stating: Please don’t send me out there for I don’t know what I am doing.
By default he states that the player who moves the pieces hasn’t a clue what to do.
Someone here needs to stop questioning God’s ability to fulfill his call and start believing you are called.
You need to begin to walk out what God has for your life because God has called you to it.
So Gideon asks for a sign.
Gideon is given instructions and a fire begins and ends.
With the ending of the fire the angel disappears.
Without reasoning God tells Gideon not to fear.
In order to understand this you must know Jewish culture.
It is believed that anyone who looks upon the face of God will die.
So speaking to the fear in Gideon’s heart God reassures his fears.
God knows your fears and has an answer to them before you even are aware that there is something to be afraid of.
I hate the expression taking a leap of faith because it isn’t a leap if you know you’re going to be caught.
It’s more of a jumping into the arms of.
One of the ways I test the spirits as we are told to in the bible is by the peace I carry.
There is always joy and peace in faith, but fear and worry when we go our own way.
When I begin to feel a sense of peace I know I am walking in the will of God.
This doesn’t mean all my problems dissipate, but rather they just aren’t as big as my God—so why should I worry.
How do we battle unbelief?
With Scripture when Gideon realized there was the call of God nothing could stop him.
Matthew 1
You are called and equipped by God and you need to stop second guessing your call.
Go with.
Walk through it and you will see that God is faithful for those endure.
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