Do you find yourself always looking for a sign from God? Judges 6-11

Judges 6:36-38 (NASBStr)

Sign of the Fleece

 Then Gideon said to God, “ If You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken, behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken.” And it was so. When he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece, he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.

The time of the Judges was a dark time in Israel's history.   The nation had rejected God and sought after the gods of the people around them.   Those nations would then put Israel to servitude and they would cry out to God for deliverance.   This is where the problem would develop: Who was available that followed God to deliver them?   When a nation is absent moral and Godly character they are typically absent moral and Godly leaders, as well.  Here is the issue in the above verse.  God called Gideon earlier in chapter six.   When He did, Gideon demanded some sort of sign that God was, indeed, God.   God granted his request and barbecued his offering on a flat rock right in front of him.   Now, once again, Gideon needs another sign to know that God would be with him.   Gideon is like you and me.   Gideon always needs affirmation.   He always wants God to let him know he is in the right place.    We might not lay out a fleece and ask God to make it either dry or wet, but we often ask God to indicate to us that He is there.  This is despite the fact that God says He is there.   Faith is seeing God through the promises of His Word.   Many people today don't want to follow God because they can't see Him or hear Him speak.  Yet, we have a more sure Word than even those who heard and audible voice, via God's Word; the Bible.   Despite the fact that Peter was on the mountain when Jesus was transfigured and he saw the glory of God in Jesus, note what Peter tells us:

2 Peter 1:19

So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.

He is telling us that we don't need a sign.  We only need to put faith in God's Word and that is the "sure word."   Don't always look for a sign.   Look into God's Word, listen to what it says and put your faith in that word.  That is your fleece.