Then Gideon said to God, “In order to see that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and all of the ground is dry, I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said.” And it was so. He arose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full drinking bowl of water. And Gideon said to God, “Do not let your anger burn against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground.” And God did so that night; only the fleece was dry, and dew was on all the ground. (Judges 6:36-40, ESV)
Some of us say this is wrong, and that is because Jesus said it was wrong to put the Lord your God to the test. And Jesus said it because it is in the Hebrew Scriptures.
But I wonder how many of us, having the moxy to ask for what Gideon did would actually believe what God showed us.
We ask for a clear sign from God and if we were to get it would we believe it? Or would we say it is a fluke, it was a mistake. So Gideon asked again…
But would you believe after the second test?
Sometimes it takes a while for us to get it and to follow and even with many clear signs we are slow to say, “yes Lord…”
Would you believe the signs and follow?
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