After all that God had done to prepare his servant, Gideon still struggled with fear. Perhaps this is understandable since he had been asked to lead 300 men against an army of over 100,000. At times the greater the assignment, the greater our need to be assured that God goes with us.
We can be harsh on the timid Gideon for constantly needing God’s assurances. Yet we must also realize that his assignment was unprecedented. No one in Scripture had been asked to take on so many with so few. It might have seemed that God was throwing away their lives in a futile act of desperation. Against such odds, this handful of warriors had to know that God went with them.
Most of us cannot fathom what it would be like to be given such an assignment. When was the last time your divine task appeared to set you up for certain failure? When was the last time you required an enormous miracle to rescue you from certain, cataclysmic disaster?
While we naturally shy away from such moments, they can be exhilarating all the same. Looking back on your life, it will be those moments when God worked powerfully in your life that you will treasure above all others.