God’s love, which is stronger than death, is causing me to continue walking the path of the mission the Lord has given me (John 6:1–15). “At that very time some Pharisees came and said to Him, ‘Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill You.’ He replied, ‘Go tell that fox, “I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.” In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem! Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Luke 13:31–35). ...
Without faith we cannot
obey!
When God said to Gideon,
"With the 300 men who lapped
I will save you and give
the Midianites into your hands.
Let all the others go
home," Gideon dismissed the rest of the men,
except the 300, as God
had instructed
(Judges 7:7-8).
However, considering
that "the Midianites, Amalekites,
and other eastern
peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts.
Their camels could no
more be counted than the sand on the seashore" (v. 12),
how was Gideon able to
send 12,000 of the 22,000 Israelites home
according to God's word
(v. 3), and then send the remaining 11,700 people home,
leaving only 300? (v. 8)
For Gideon to be able to
obey God's word was an impossible task without faith.
He acted according to
God's word because he believed in what God said,
"With the 300 men
who lapped
I will save you and give
the Midianites into your hands" (v.7).
If he had relied on his
own understanding,
Gideon would never have
been able to obey God's word.
"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit
to him, and he will make your paths straight"
(Proverbs 3:5-6).
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