“But sir,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian.” (Judges 6:13, NIV 184).
My Musings – Perhaps we grew so used to the LORD being with us that we can scarcely comprehend His apparent abandonment when not so pleasant things happen to us. Where are all the wonders when He brought this backwater fledgling Republic to a place of world prominence? Has he indeed abandoned us? Our perspective is that He has moved away from us, when in reality it is we who have moved away from Him. Barely perceptible while it was happening, because it was not abrupt, yet as we look…
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