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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Judges 6:14-27
While he is looking at himself, Gideon does not find this power of which the angel spoke to him. Quite the opposite! He is the least person in the poorest family. But like the apostle Paul later, like you and me so often in our lives, Gideon has to learn this lesson: "When I am weak, then am I strong", (2 Corinthians 12:10) and "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13). The power which Gideon had (v. 14) is that of God Himself: "the ability which God giveth" (1 Peter 4:11) and which for the servant "is made perfect in weakness".
What a precious meeting with the Angel of the LORD this is; it is like the meeting which we must have sometime in our life with the Lord on the ground of the sacrifice of the cross. The consequence of this meeting is not death – far from it – it is peace (v. 23). And Gideon builds an altar in homage to this God of peace who has made Himself known to him. Then, immediately afterwards, he has to learn that there are things to overturn, to throw down and to cut down. Don’t we also have things which need to be destroyed if we wish to be strong? It is not possible to have an idol dwelling in our hearts at the same time as the Holy Spirit, for whom our body has become His temple.
