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Discipleship Focus: Guidance
- Guidance: God grants us His guidance. Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation. Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen. Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.
Gideon is a disciple in the earliest stages when we meet him
here. He is timid enough to only be
obedient to tear down the foreign altars under the cover of darkness. When God asks him to deliver the Hebrew
people he not only asks for a sign – he asks for the same sign repeated in an
opposite effect. But Gideon isn’t
reluctant. He is not being
disobedient. He is timid and
uncertain. He lacks the confidence of a
well developed leader.
This is a really neat perspective to put on this story. For God is patient with Gideon. God accepts that Gideon follows His directive
under the cover of darkness. God accepts
that Gideon needs a sign or two. God
embraces Gideon’s sacrifice. And when
Gideon is shown that he is speaking to a messenger of God, God accepts his
humble repentance. God doesn’t mind that
Gideon is new and hesitant. God embraces
Gideon and guides him.
Again, this is a really neat perspective. God doesn’t ask us to have it all
together. Neither does He ask Gideon to
step out in bold confidence and draw all sorts of tribulation upon himself. God embraces Gideon and guides him as he is.
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