Thoughts From The Word - Book 2: Thoughts from the Word, #2

By Bob Morton

Volume 2 of a series of 12 devotionals. Each devotional is from a slice of life that can be related to.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Morton
• Release date: May 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386989936

Bob Morton

Bob Morton is a computer technician and a teacher of computers. He has studied the Bible for many of those years. He wrote a series of devotionals on a Blog called Daily Devotions from Bob.  Father of 7 (yours, mine and ours) and a grandfather to 3.  

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How does God See You, How Do You See Yourself?

Judges 6:11-15 (KJV)

(11) And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

Did you ever stop to wonder what Gideon was doing in a winepress? A winepress was a large container, taller than a man was. That the grapes would be put into it and then crushed to make wine. This is not a good place to be threshing wheat because it would involve throwing the grain in the air so that the good part could drop down and the unusable part could be blown away in the wind. You see, there would be no wind in the winepress. So why would you thresh wheat there? Because you did not want your enemy, the Midianites, to know, because they would come and steal your wheat. You see, Gideon saw himself as a coward.

(12) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.

What is important is how God sees us. The angel of the LORD made a special effort to find Gideon and tell him what the LORD thought of him. You know what? God sees us the same way. Think about it, God is not a respecter of people. If He sees Gideon as a mighty man of valor, how does he see you? The more important thing here is how do you see yourself in comparison with how God sees you?

(13) And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

Gideon continues to look at himself as a failure. Do you do the same when you know that God says you are good? Not only does he continue to put himself down, he insults all of Israel and tells God that He has failed Israel in the process. Read Judges and find out the real story. God had not failed them. They turned away from God and God let their enemies defeat them. A regular pattern flows through the book of Judges. They were following false gods during this period of time. Gideon blames God for what they have done to