If the Lord is with us ...
Judges 6:13
‘If the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?’
Loaded question! One that we all ask from time to time. How can the Lord be with me when everything isn’t perfect, we wonder?
It’s interesting to see that God didn’t answer this question. He just gave Gideon instructions on what to do next. I’m with you, so get up and do something.
What I take from this is that circumstances don’t matter that much. They aren’t an indicator, necessarily, of God’s presence or absence.
‘The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.’ And yet, Gideon had never fought a war by that time! He calls things that be not as though they were. The Lord is with me, even when it doesn’t ‘seem’ like it. And I am everything God calls me, even when it doesn’t ‘seem’ like it.
‘If the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?’
Loaded question! One that we all ask from time to time. How can the Lord be with me when everything isn’t perfect, we wonder?
It’s interesting to see that God didn’t answer this question. He just gave Gideon instructions on what to do next. I’m with you, so get up and do something.
What I take from this is that circumstances don’t matter that much. They aren’t an indicator, necessarily, of God’s presence or absence.
‘The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.’ And yet, Gideon had never fought a war by that time! He calls things that be not as though they were. The Lord is with me, even when it doesn’t ‘seem’ like it. And I am everything God calls me, even when it doesn’t ‘seem’ like it.
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