Judges 6:15
He said to Him, “O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
Why does God use the weakest among His people to accomplish great tasks for Him? In the story of Gideon we have the great truth revealed that God wants to use lesser souls to accomplish great things. In the above verse Gideon makes the observation that he is not worthy to be used by God for a great task since he is the youngest from a very small family. His view of himself is that God will not use someone of such small stature. Yet, this is who God uses for much of His work. God uses the weak things of the world to confound the strong and the wise in the world (1 Corinthians 1). When we are weak than He is strong (2 Corinthians 12:10; 13:9). Gideon had an "assumed constraint" in his life. He assumed that since he was young and of no means he was constrained to do little for God. It is in these times that we can be used mostly by God. Later Gideon would go and fight the army of the Midianites with only 300 men. Again, his weak army (low in numbers and having no weapons) would be victorious in God's strength. When we are weak He his strong. We ought to relish the we are weak. For than He can and is strong. God puts us in these situations so that we can later rejoice in what He did through us, not what we accomplish for Him. God rejoices in our weakness.
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