The Book of Judges is as contemporary as it gets; it is marked with a repeated pattern that we see in the current world we live in. The people cry out to God and in His faithfulness and mercy He provides them with a deliverer. They obey God until the death of the deliverer and fall back into the old habits again. The 6th chapter of the Book of Judges presents the instance of Gideon, a very unlikely hero of the faith that becomes God’s instrument to deliver the Israel from the Midianites’s oppression. As I read the narrative, God’s screening in the choosing of the 300 men became the object of my contemplation. And this is what we’ll be discussing today.
Scripture References:
Main Passage: Judges 7
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My name is Tayib Salami and I started Tayibs.com for the sole purpose of exploring difficult questions about the Christian faith that most of us shy away from. In 2017, I entered a very dark time in my life and it’s only by the grace of the Living God that I’m still alive today. It led me to really go deeper in my faith and consider a myriad of questions that I never thought about asking myself or others before. Welcome and enjoy the ride with me.