Chapter 6 of Judges shows the challenges the Israelites faced at the Midianites’ hands. This lasted for seven years and was a result of the sins Israelites had committed against their creator.
In the same chapter of verses 12 and 13, an angel of the Lord appeared and greeted Gideon in a manner that caused him to reflect on Israel’s history and the past relationship Israel had with God that was told to him by his forefathers. “If the Lord is with us, why then is all this befallen us,” he reasoned, “and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, 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.” In 1 Corinthians 2:11, the bible tells us that God is a silent listener of our innermost thoughts. Judges 6:14 revealed God’s plan for Gideon’s thoughts and the Israelites. The Lord looked upon him and said, “Go in this thy might, and though shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites have not sent thee”
Gideon’s contemplation of the Israelite’s history with God caused him to be called and be of God.
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