Category: Judges

There is truth to the saying that your greatest strength can also be your greatest weakness. In the areas you are most confident, pride and negligence often take hold. Pride, as Proverbs tells us, comes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. n the fright of night. For Gideon’s army, their weakness and…

or invading other countries who have something you would like. Weakness is not a virtue, or a place from which victory is expected. Those that win through strength of body, supporters, or numbers, live in boastful pride that none can stop them. But this position is not true. God humbles the proud, and lays low…

The Christian walk can feel like a constant conflict between strength and weakness. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, we step out in faith and trust God’s promises, turning away from sinful patterns of life. Yet at the same time, our faith is still weak and requires reassurance, and our old ways still live within us.…

groups. Whether they are an ideology, a practice, or a physical object, idols are very precious to us. When they are shown to be the impotent things they are compared to God, trouble is not far behind.

Gideon in his weakness, commissions Gideon with a promise, and assures Gideon with a sign. Gideon realises the heights of God’s holiness and the terror of his inadequacy, but experiences the peace with God that ultimately comes to us all through Jesus.

You would think that after God’s mighty act of salvation, we would stay on the straight and narrow. Sadly, this is not what happens. We often forget God’s goodness expressed to us through Jesus, and fall into sin. Often in these situations, God disciplines us to draw us back to him. When we cry out,…

Singing praises to God was important throughout history, and in Judges 5 we see another song which sings praises to God for who he is and what he had done for God’s People in delivering them from their oppressors. This song speaks of God’s action versus Israel’s plight, the different approaches of God’s People to…

Judges in Chapter 4 God further demonstrates his use of unusual means to save his people; two women. Where the men are weak, fearful, and cowardly, two women are brave and courageous, striking a blow for freedom.

, what he did, and what effect it had on Israel. He only rates a one verse mention. But he is still important, because the Bible points him out.

Judges 3 contains a story which holds plenty of comical relief, along with an element of personal gorishness which surprises and shocks our sensibilities. But along with the comical relief, the story describes a different type of relief; a relief from oppression.