God has numerous means of making you far bigger than you are. You may be ordinary. Your resources may be minimal. You may lack experience. But when God gives you a task, He also stands ready to make up any shortfall on your part.
There were only 300 people with Gideon. They faced a vast army. Gideon may well have wished God had given him a additional battalions, instead, God gave him trumpets and clay pots! His men may well have wondered what they were to do against an enemy with swords and spears when they were armed with pots and instruments. But that was God’s plan. And, at the appointed time, in the dead of night, the 300 broken pots and trumpet blasts made the band of Israelites sound as if they were a thousand times more numerous than they actually were. Thus a vast army was intimidated and overcome by a very noisy, little cohort.
God is never intimidated or bewildered by what challenges you. He has an unlimited number of ways to address your problems! Over the centuries, God’s people faced many enemies, yet God never again led them to use this particular maneuver. It was one of a kind, like much of God’s activity throughout Scripture.
At a particular moment in history, God’s people faced a need. God met it uniquely. If you are facing a challenge right now, don’t expect God to provide for you in exactly the same manner that He has before. He may choose to do something unique in your life.