Read Judges 6:13 – “But sir,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian.”
Gideon is living in tough times and he is having a tough time. The Israelites were being ruined by invaders who took the best of the land. They found themselves needing to hide just to survive. An angel of the Lord appears to Gideon and declares that the Lord is with him. Gideon meets that message with a courageous response. He wanted to know where the miracles were that he had heard about from his father and why God seemed to have forsaken them? Somewhere in his boyhood he had listened to and believed the stories of miracles. He had heard about a God who loved him. Thank God for the daddies that give their children insight into a great God through such stories. When dad is gone, it will be those testimonies that give hope and guidance for his children. Dads who instill an awe of God into their children will have children who have a hope that is awesome!
– David Raley serves as the Field Representative for Light for the Lost.
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