So last night we moved on in our series "Still Counting" and talked about Subtraction and things we could subtract in our lives. One of the adult leaders, raised a point which I thought was funny, but I also thought about it as I wandered in the back of the room while the students were responding to the lesson.
Anyways, we looked at Gideon last night fighting the Midianites. We saw that God asked Him to fight the Midianites, and eventually he got the courage to do so. Then God comes up and says I want you to take away a few (that's definitely a paraphrase). So according to Judges 7:3, 20,000 men left! Then God gives his reasoning that he does not want the Israelites to boast about themselves, but boast in God who is giving the Midianites over. Then God says we need to weed out some more of these cats (another definite paraphrase). So God tells them to take the rest of his guys down to the water. God gives Gideon the instruction to tell them to drink and he will weed them out by who laps water like dogs and who goes for the gold and sticks there head in the water and just "goes to town".
Here's the two things I'm wondering?
1. If I were Gideon, how and why does God take my men to the water to "sift" the other men out? It sounds kind of silly.
2. Why in the end, does God take the men who lap the water like dogs? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Think about it! Give me your thoughts!
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