Main Scriptures: Judges 7:1-22; Isaiah 54:1-3;
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At certain times God orders what seems counterintuitive to human reason, to
bring glory to His name. For example in 1 Corinthians 1:18 it is the foolish looking cross that actually demonstrates the love and power of God: counterintuitive! This strange way for God to produce a victory occurs only when ordered by God. This is the point of Gideon, Abraham and Jesus’ experience in doing God’s will. But only when he directs.
We are not called to just do counterintuitive things in order to spur God to action! It’s
only when He clearly speaks, then we obey.
First, Make Sure, as much as possible, that the approach is God ordained.
We are not to create difficulties in the hopes that God will intervene. In our main
text God clearly spoke in Chapter 7:1-7 and Gideon obeyed. That brought the army
down to 300: “With the 300 men... I Will save you and I will give the Midianite vast army into your hands.” In this peculiar situation, created by God, all will clearly know that it’s the Lord that tips the proverbial scale. In fact even with Israel’s original numbers, they were no match for the Midian army: Without the Lord’s special intervention Goideon and Co. could not win.
Note constantly throughout the book of Judges the children of Israel, who
constantly slipped into ungodly, idolatrous ways had to “cry unto the Lord” and He was always faithful to respond(Judges 6:1-11)
Second, Because some of God’s solutions seem counterintuitive to us.
He gives us special grace to persevere. In Gideon’s story it manifested through varied
signs that he asked God to perform.