Testing the Lord, Testing of Your Life

Synopsis     Judges 6:32-7:1     6/16/2018

Gideon was renamed Jerubbaal because he had dismantled his father’s altar. And the spirit of God was evident on Gideon by those who knew him.

Gideon began to form an army from the northern tribes of Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali. Then Gideon asked God for a sign to ensure that God was with him. He lay a piece of wool fleece on the ground and asked God to make the dew fall on the wool fleece but not on the ground, which God did. He then asked that the dew fall on the ground but not on the wool fleece, and God did this also.

The next day, Gideon moved his army into position.

Testing of the Fleece

Gideon was past the point of demanding a sign in order to believe. Yet he felt the weight of responsibility for the thousands of men who were miraculously willing to follow him. He didn’t want to risk making a mistake in his understanding of God’s command.

Testing of Your Life

There is a difference between testing God, as though He should prove himself to me and testing God to verify that I am rightly responding to His will. There is no sin in asking for clarity if the disposition of your heart is to obey.

“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, That there may be food in my house. Put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, And see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you, and pour down upon you blessing without measure!” Mal 3:10