“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. When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, ‘The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.’ [Judges 6:11-12]
“Who me?” Now that’s probably not what Gideon said, but from the debate with the Angel of the LORD that follows, that’s pretty much the gist of the conversation. Every time the Angel of the LORD said something, Gideon began to debate … usually beginning with the word, “but.” [If you haven’t read the story of Gideon, you’ll find it in Judges 6-8.]
God eventually won and Gideon, after some testing that what he was hearing was coming from the LORD, did what the Lord said. He followed God’s instructions, tore down the altar to the vile false god, Baal, and defeated the Midianites with a handful of men using trumpets and torches.
“Who me?” That is often the way I respond to God. Can God really use an aging woman (72 in a couple months), a small church in a little-known community in a small state to change anything?
God seems to think He can. My response is to get on board with God’s thinking and move as the Spirit moves. I want to see our generation, our nation, turned to God in righteousness and truth.
