Gideon came from the weakest clan in Manasseh and he was the lowest ranking person in his family. His story started in Judges chapter six from 1191 B.C.-1144 B.C. At the time of Gideon, Deborah was the judge in Israel. During that time, the Lord commanded Gideon to use His strength to save Israel. The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and for seven years they were in the hands of the Midianties. Unsure of what the Lord was asking, Gideon prayed for a sign from the Lord. So, the Lord sent an angel. As Gideon was making a food offering to the Lord, the angel took the unleavened bread and fire consumed the meat to prove to Gideon he was the one God wanted to use to bring peace. This is the first time God asked Gideon to step out in faith. He builds an altar for the Lord where upon Gideon asked Him to show him another sign whether or not he would save Israel. Early in the morning, Gideon and all his men camped at the spring of Harod, where the Lord told him he had too many men with him. With only 300 men to bring into battle with him, Gideon split the men into three …show more content…
“Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian,” said in Judges 6:13. Gideon was wondering where God was in all the craziness that was going on around him. He doesn’t see that there is a purpose to why all things happen. He feels the Lord has abandoned them in a time of need. When we are in a time of need do we always try and find God in the midst or do we blame him for putting us through a hard time? We want a dramatic sign from God to see if he is listening to us while we cry out to him but we learn that God listens to us at all
Primo Levi was a Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor from the concentration Auschwitz. Primo Levi talks about in his book called “Survival in Auschwitz” about what it means to survive. There are many quotes that stand out in his book and have strong importance to them.
When life hits us with problems and obstacles, we ask: “Why did this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this?” If we believe in God, we direct these questions to Him. In Classic Christianity, Bob George shows an example of this when he talks about a man preparing himself for a wildness trip. Each day he pushed himself harder to get ready. He wondered what his body would say about his preparations. “Why are you doing this to me?” “What have I done to deserve this?” Were the two thoughts that came to his mind. We do the same thing with God. We wonder why the Lord is punishing us. The Lord doesn’t punish us; He loves us unconditionally. The Lord is preparing us to face even greater challenges in life with perseverance and faith.
The Exodus story is a key event in regards to Israel’s history and the Old Testament. Exodus is often seen as the beginning for the Israelites in regards to their journey of faith. In Exodus it covers many events which includes Moses being called by God to lead the slaves, the escape of Egypt, wandering in the Sinai desert for forty years, establishing a covenant with God, receiving the Torah, and getting settled in the new land that they were called to. The Torah is known as the instruction from God that was given to Moses and then passed on to the Israel’s people. Passover is an event that has important significance still to this day. Jews still celebrate this event every year as a way to show the importance of passing through the life of
God came to Gideon the son of Joash the Abiezrite. God tells him that he is going to lead His people and defeat the Midianites. God also tells him that while he is leading the people he will not die during battle. Even though Gideon heard the from God, and had faith, he still was not convinced and positive that this was true. Multiple times Gideon asked God for sign. An angel of the Lord came to Gideon and told Gideon to bring him a present. Gideon brought a kid which is a young lamb. This kid was most likely cooked already for his own meal. He had the kid in a basket and also brought broth in a pot and brought it to the angel of God. The angel then told GIdeon the lay out the flesh and pour out the broth. The angel then touched the meal with His staff and a fire consumed it. GIdeon was still not satisfied. One night he asked God to have dew dampen a fleece only and the ground over night. When he woke up, he was able to wring out water from the fleece, enough to fill up a bowl. He still was not satisfied. This time he asked God to do the opposite. He asked that the fleece be dry and the ground wet with dew. He woke up the next morning and the ground was wet with dew and the fleece was dry. Now he finally believed that God would deliver them from the hands of the
Gideon was the fifth judge out of the fifth-teen judges of Israel. His name means person who destroys, brakes, hacker, or he that cuts down. He was the weakest person in his clan of Abiezer in the tribe of Manasseh. Manasseh also happened to be the weakest tribe in Judah. His father, Joash, was the leader of Gideon’s clan. Gideon helps his father with his job which is farming and hiding the crops from the Midianites. The Midianites had taken control of all of Israel for seven years because God saw that the people of Israel were doing wrong. They forced the Israelites into the mountains but they also steal all of their crops and cattle. The people of Israel cried out to got for help.
The Bible gives us a much broader understanding of God's relationship with us. Look at the verses at the top of the page. This comes from Psalm 44, one of the Lament Psalms. Laments are exactly what they sound like. A recognition that life isn't going right. That someone has lost. They are frank and raw discussion about feeling abandoned by God. They even sound a bit whiny at times.
For my Religious Experience Paper I decided to visit a worship center. I decided to choose this as my project piece because I had already been contemplating out of curiosity how this particular worship center worships based on previous discussions and invitations from a friend of mine that always stemmed from conversations of each other’s religious practices or functions etc. So today I was accompanied by my friend Lenore to experience her church. Multiple times during conversation Lenore has invited me to visit her church, Bandera Road City Church otherwise known as BRCC. I will admit I have wondered what kind of experience goes on behind that door at BRCC each time I’ve passed by it. I grew up Catholic and still practice Catholicism despite my concerns for some of the ways of the church. I won’t get into the personal issues as it would take too long to discuss in this paper and is not the purpose of the paper but have mentioned it in a couple of my posts in our class discussions. The way parishioners treat my sister because she is Lesbian, the outlook the church has towards LGBT is hurtful rather than the loving way of Jesus. As well as the fact that my previous parish advised me that I could no longer teach religious education since I divorced my 1st husband. Therefore, there have been times in my life that I asked myself if I wanted to continue to practice Catholicism and continue to attend Catholic Church Mass. This assignment allowed me to finally accept
Rouhani, do not release the Christian and Muslim American hostages no matter what the un-American Hawaiian born, the lady senator who I'm so glad is running for the Presidency, the hateful man with an orange outfit, or the ugly Afghan refugee are saying. Don't even care what the world are even indicating to you. Let me repeat myself, do not release the damn hostages. The day after my an inauguration as the President of the United States of America, at least the guilty hostages would be another excuse for me to start a peaceful war with you and eighty five millions of your hateful kind. Most likely my Vic President pick the beauty pageant Sarah Palin, and definitely my Secretary of State the bacon wrap machine gun Ted Cruz, are on the same page
This seven day journey recording my every move was not an easy one to say the least; Feeling guilty was on the agenda most days. Recording a food journal and tracking my physical activity for seven consecutive days has opened my eyes in many ways. To start off, I am an 18 year old female in college who eats what I crave but tries to eat heathy. I exercise whenever my heart desires which is not often, but I am a full time nanny who loves a 7 month old and a 2 year old. Pushing a stroller containing a tiny human weighing around 20 pounds is my daily activity, going on walks to the park is our favorite activity during the day, if we can make it without melting on the sidewalk before we arrive at the swings. My diet consists of poultry and water,
Gideon replies, countering what the stranger said, “Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us?” (Judges 6:13) The first ‘Lord’ used in this sentence is 'âdôn, it’s root meaning: “(meaning to rule); sovereign, that is, controller (human or divine): - lord, master, owner” (Strong’s Concordance H113). Here we see Gideon addressing the stranger politely, but he doesn’t realize that he is talking to an angel of the Lord. Gideon also presents more doubts to the ‘stranger’ later on in verses 13, “and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” Gideon at this point may be wary, he doesn’t know this ‘person’, plus he was just interrupted, his hiding place for threshing wheat was found out. Gideon’s language contains questions and he also states his doubts, he mentions that he believes the Lord has forsaken them. So far the characteristics Gideon portrays is fearfulness, and doubt. In verse 16 of Judges 6, the Lord tells Gideon, “Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.” This obviously perks Gideon curiosity as we see in the next verses (17&18); he starts to realize with whom he may be conversing.
Typical. What falls underneath the term typical? When referring to my typical experience of the bible it isn’t one that would be typical to most people. At first my experience with the bible was one like many others. I grew up going to church learning the basic biblical knowledge that shaped my perspective of what the bible was all about. Growing up I was the awkward quiet kid at church, the kid who sat and listened but hardly ever the kid that was considered to be unique. As I got older I began to realize that I didn’t enjoy being the “unique kid”. When I got in middle school I decided to turn my focus towards something else besides church. I turned my full attention to basketball. At that time turning my focus away from church wasn’t that hard. While I was in middle school our church was going through a time with an interim minister. The minister was very old and boring and that was one of my main reasons for losing interest. He couldn’t relate the bible in a way my young intellectual mind could understand. While I was playing basketball in middle school I was the best of the best. I was even honored as one of the best players in middle schools girls’ basketball. I was also presented with a trophy as well as two recruiting offers at two local high schools. One of which I later accepted.
From the beginning of my coming to stay in Egypt I heard talk of the arrival of this sul- tan Musa on his Pilgrimage and found the people of Cairo eager to recount what they had seen of the Africans' prodigal [wasteful] spending. I asked the emir Abu ... and he told me of the opulence [luxury; extreme wealth], manly virtues, and piety of his sultan [king]. "When I went out to meet him, that is, on behalf of the mighty
Nor does it make it any easier to understand the purpose of a particular trial. Therefore, sometimes we have to admit we just don’t know and instead of going crazy and trying to find out why, we must trust in the Lord and remember - as difficult as it can be at times - that “all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28, HCSB). We also have the assurance that our Lord will never leave or forsake us (Hebrews, 13:5) and as our text states, He will be there, helping us during the rivers of difficulty and the fire of oppression. And with His help, we will not panic, nor give into fear. Instead, with Him by our side, we will be able to walk through the toughest of trials. As Alan Redpath once said, “walking is the pace at which you go when you are not in a hurry when you are not concerned or alarmed. When you are not burdened or anxious, then you
It is during one of many occasion where Israel does as they see fit that the story of Gideon
“Flight attendants, we are ready for take-off” I heard the pilot say. I put away my computer and tell my family I love them, but I want to sleep because my flight was at 7:50 am. But I can’t sleep! I am about to leave my hometown to come to my new home, New York. I have never stayed in New York for more than two weeks; rather I have never traveled on the subway with thousands of people I don’t know sitting in a seat where millions have sat before me. I am tossing and turning in my chair, so I start to think. What will my new life have in store for me? Will, I become a stereo topical New Yorker or will I stay a Chicagoan? Will New York be my home? I was ready for this journey; ready to get off the plane, and make my own “personal New York.”