It Wasn’t Me

The Lord said to Gidian, “you have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel could boast against me,” ‘my own strength has save me.’”

Judges 7:2

It wasn’t me, it was God.

If everything always went your way and you always had way more than you needed, then you would never have a reason to depend on God.

As humans, Mere mortals, we have a tendency to claim the fame. We like to take the glory when some thing went well, but all things actually happen only in the way God directed them. And yet, there are many times when God calls us to do something specific, like Gideon, and he ends up taking the ease out of calling because he wants us to rely on him alone.

God doesn’t do these things because he wants us to suffer. He makes the steps look more difficult so we can’t claim the glory, but instead his name will be glorified and he will become known. He’s already worked all things out and if he’s called us he will equip us, but we may not be equipped how we expected. He will give us just enough to win the battle because he is more than enough and won the war.

In the same way he fought the battle with Gideon, he provided his son for the biggest battle of our lives. We can’t save ourself from sin and death, but Jesus can and did. We can’t take back our life from the grips of sins bondage, but faith and trust in our Savior Jesus can. We can try all we want to have an abundant life, but there is only one way… Get out of our own way, lay down our selfish desires and follow him.

And all I do, I do for you.

My Savior Jesus, you never leave us.

It wasn’t me, how could it be.

Because I saw the battle and my strength was weak,

I asked for more, but you didn’t speak.

You knew the outcome and provided some.

But their army was plentiful,

And I wanted to run.

‘For the Lord and for Gideon’, was the battle cry.

If I said I was fearless, I would’ve lied.

I strapped on my helmet, and grabbed my shield.

And to my heart, I wouldn’t yield,

Because I had faith, in what you had in store.

And you didn’t just win the battle, you Won the War.