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Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Judges 6:1-13
Again Israel begins to do evil in the sight of the LORD, who this time uses Midian to discipline them in the way foretold in Deuteronomy 28:33. Each year, at harvest time, the Midianites used to come up like grasshoppers for number and seize the food and the animals, looting and destroying the whole country.
What does Satan do to weaken the believer, to make him spiritually "greatly impoverished"? He does his best to take away his food. Have you noticed that sometimes everything seems to conspire together to prevent us reading our Bibles or to stop us going to a Bible reading? This is certainly the work of the devil. He knows the strength that we obtain from it and he fears that power.
Many young people dream of becoming very strong, of being champions in fact. They should imitate Gideon. He takes great trouble to ensure that he has enough food and thus provides his family with protection from the famine. How strong and valiant he is (v. 12)! It is certainly not a question of muscular strength but of courage and of making a decision in one’s heart for the Lord. God who looks upon us (v. 14), sees if this is apparent in our everyday lives.
