We can be too quick to discount the presence of miracles in our life.
We read about God’s mighty power exercised in the lives of people who lived in biblical times. We study how God performed miracles throughout church history. Yet when it comes to our lives, we assume our time is different. Perhaps God doesn’t do that any more. Maybe we are so ordinary that we do not qualify for a miracle. When we do not expect a miracle, we do not experience one.
Gideon took the opportunity to ask God why He was no longer performing miracles on behalf of His people. The young farmer assumed the problem must lie with God. He would soon learn it did not. The problem with asking God a question is that you must be prepared for His answer. Because God is not working powerfully in your life, it does not mean that He cannot. It usually indicates that you are not in a place in your life where God is pleased to do a mighty work. It always takes longer for God to prepare His people for a mighty work than it takes for God to actually work a miracle.
We might well ask the same question Gideon asked so many centuries ago: God, why are you not working powerfully through my life?