Our Limitations is God's Opportunity

Read Judges 6, 7

Judges 7:2
The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’

Numbers are inconsequential to God. God specializes in small numbers and minute human strength. God only needs one thing from those whom he calls – dependence on him.

Trust and faith in God alone, not in human wisdom or power; lest we start rationalising God’s act and miracle and fail to give Him all the credit due His name.

Gideon struggled with his lack of faith as seen in his asking for signs from God again and again. He faced enormous pressure from his community and family. He was timid by nature as seen in his tearing down Baal’s altar in the dark. He wrestled with self-doubts and probably second-guessed himself lots.

But God is not limited by Gideon’s limitations. All the limitations are challenges in Gideon’s eyes but great opportunities from God’s viewpoint.

God wants to do great things through us. He knows all our fears, weaknesses and even handicaps. His focus is not on us – so we must shift our focus from ourselves to the Great God who calls us. We get in God’s way when we concentrate on what we have and we are instead of who He is and who is for us and with us.

God will reduce us to the bare minimum and strip us of all dependence on man and self so that no one can claim credit when He delivers or does a miracle; for the greater the odds, the greater the praise.

I Cor 1:31, Jer 9:24
“Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”