admiring God's incredible choices

We first see him holed up in a ditch trying to quietly make wheat edible while hiding from bullies. An angel comes to him and calls him a mighty man of God. You’ve got to know that even Gideon would have to say in his best Denero style- are you talking to me?

Indeed an angelic being who could scatter him from Judah to Istanbul was talking to Gideon and calling him a mighty warrior. What’s more, as the ongoing conversation between Gideon and the God of Israel continued we see God whittling down Gideon’s resources. He starts out with 32,000 soldiers. Not bad. But he ends up with 300. The original 300 hundred- Not the Hollywood version from a few years back. But the message that keeps returning like the 9th Symphony Motif of Beethoven is that God gives power to the weak, the down and out, and the underdog so that his power will be without question.

That’s why he chose tax collectors, hotheaded zealots, prostitutes and smelly fishermen to carry around the glory of grace. How could somebody resist the chance to have an audience with the one who holds every grassy knoll mystery the world as ever known?