COURAGE STORY · THE THREE HUNDRED · JUDGES 6–7
DAY 02
Called in the Winepress
“Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it. The angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor.”
Judges 6:11–12
Reflection
He was hiding when he was called a mighty man of valor — which was either a joke or a description of something not yet visible. People are regularly named for who they are becoming rather than where they are standing.
PRAY
Lord, I am being addressed as something I do not recognize. Let me receive it instead of arguing with it, and let me grow toward it slowly.
Amen.
DECLARE
I can be called something I have not become yet.
TODAY'S PRACTICE
Ask someone who knows you well what they see in you that you dismiss. Write down their words verbatim.