Judges 6

7-10: This is the first rebuke to the Israelites when they called upon God, but the Bible does not say anything about the people's response to God. I wonder if they repented...surely God would not have sent Gideon if they did not repent. Then again, perhaps their repentance was much like Gideon's leadership; gung ho to start, but without the true conviction to see it through.

11: What is a terebinth?

     It is a smallish tree.

15: "Weakest in my tribe" "youngest in my household" God likes to do that, just to prove how big he is.

27: I understand the fear Gideon feels. My family means the world to me and disappointing them would make me very uneasy.

28: Where was this Asherah that the men of town would not hear all the commotion of an alter being built, a bull being slaughtered and a pole being cut down and chopped?

31: For all Gideon's fear, his father backed him up, I wonder what it would have been like if he had let his father in on the plan. God wanted it to happen, so it would have been done either way. I am sure that the father would have appreciated his son's trust, or at least some heads up.

35: Too many names in the Bible to keep straight. I wish it would call them by their original tribe names to keep me from confusion!

36-40: Finicky little fellow, wasn't he?

God can use any of us, even when we are unsure of our ability. The key is to trust him. TRUST HIM!