Gideon was a judge in Israel in a difficult time. Life for God’s people was characterized by cycles – disobedience, discipline, desperation, and deliverance. We meet Gideon in one of those times of discipline.  And Gideon meets God in a moment that challenges him to come out of hiding and take a stand for righteousness for the Lord. God caused a great deliverance through him.

Gideon was a judge in Israel in a difficult time. Life for God’s people was characterized by cycles – disobedience, discipline, desperation, and deliverance. We meet Gideon in one of those times of discipline.  And Gideon meets God in a moment that challenges him to come out of hiding and take a stand for righteousness for the Lord. God caused a great deliverance through him. And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.” And Gideon said to him, “Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.” And the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?” And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” And the LORD said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

Judges 6:11-16 ESV