DAILEY EXPRESSIONS

What are we saying about our enemy?  In this chapter we find the enemies of God afraid of Gideon and his army.  The funny thing is that Gideon was extremely out numbered.  Even with the 32,ooo original army they were out numbered.  A big part of our ability to have victory is our confidence in going into the battle.  The children of Israel viewed themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of Jericho and they choose to wander in the wilderness for 40 years.  Gideon saw himself and his army of 300 the size of God.  He went in knowing they would be victories because his victory was based on God.  I find myself looking at the current state of the world and being about as confident as the children of Israel under the leadership of Moses.  The problems are to big and the church is to small.  We are going to lose.  For some reason I fight like a suicide bomber.  I go wanting to win as many as I can believing that I will never see victory.  I just want to take as many as I can with me.  The sad part is that I am putting this lets go out with a bang mentality on Christ.  He is a God of victory not a God that settles for just taking out as many as we can while going down.