Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Judges 6:14-24
by: Dale E. Rood.
Enter Gideon. When the Lord God appears to him, he asks the same question everybody else was asking: “Why?” But God doesn’t give the same answer to Gideon as he did to everybody else (v. 10). Rather, he tells Gideon, “Do something about it!” God makes clear to Gideon that he is commissioning him to save Israel. Gideon then asks a question: How do I know it is really God asking this of me? (v. 17) This is a wise question to ask when we feel we have a word from the Lord. We must have a confirmation that the directions we receive are really from God. How did confirmation come for Gideon? How might confirmation come for us?