"why has all this happened to us?"
Judges 6:11-12
The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior."
"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's story has always been one of my favorites in Judges, both because of the great amount of details in it and the character of Gideon himself.
The above verses stood out to me because of Gideon's initial response to the angel. Maybe he didn't recognize it was an angel immediately, but Gideon seems to not really be the sort of guy who's a big believer that the Lord is the savior of the Israelites. He instead focused on the reality that his people are oppressed, suffering, and seemingly abandoned by God.
I sometimes fall into the trap of having the same response as Gideon - "If the Lord is with us, how come all this horrible stuff is happening right now to friends, family, and myself?" It's hard to remove myself from present circumstances sometimes and get perspective, to see God working.
The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior."
"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's story has always been one of my favorites in Judges, both because of the great amount of details in it and the character of Gideon himself.
The above verses stood out to me because of Gideon's initial response to the angel. Maybe he didn't recognize it was an angel immediately, but Gideon seems to not really be the sort of guy who's a big believer that the Lord is the savior of the Israelites. He instead focused on the reality that his people are oppressed, suffering, and seemingly abandoned by God.
I sometimes fall into the trap of having the same response as Gideon - "If the Lord is with us, how come all this horrible stuff is happening right now to friends, family, and myself?" It's hard to remove myself from present circumstances sometimes and get perspective, to see God working.
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