“The first step in any human justice endeavor is to fix our altars. I won’t say that nothing else matters because everything else most definitely does matter, but the gospel is our primary purpose”
Pull down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole standing beside it. Then build an altar to the Lord your God here on this hilltop sanctuary, laying the stones carefully. (Judges 6:25-26)
Read: Judges 6:1-40, Luke 22:54-23:12, Psalm 95:1-96:13, Proverbs 14:5-6
Relate: There is just so much good stuff in the story of Gideon that it was really hard for me to chose what to talk about. I wanted to talk about how Gideon, though a coward doing the wrong thing in the wrong place was called by God, “Mighty Warrior”. I wanted to write about how God said to Gideon, “Go with the strength you have.” I felt like it would be such a perfect follow up to yesterday’s devotion This Isn’t My War. The very next thing God says is, “I will be with you and you will be victorious.” Once again, there is so much…
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