IS THIS YOU?
John 20:19-29

When the Lord appeared to Gideon, He promised that Gideon was going to be used as the vessel of deliverance for his people from the oppression of the enemy. Gideon wanted to test God if he was actually going to be used for such an assignment. “So Gideon said to God, “If You will save Israel by my hand as You have said— 37 look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have said.” 38 And it was so. When he rose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece together, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.” (Judges 6:36-38) God responded to the request of Gideon as a confirmation of the assignment He bestowed to Gideon. One would expect that was all that Gideon needed for a confirmation, but Gideon asked for more from the Lord when he said, “…Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more: Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on all the ground let there be dew.” 40 And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, but there was dew on all the ground. (Judges 6:39-40) Gideon called his approach, ‘testing God’. Are you desperately in need of a confirmation of what the Lord has called you to do? Gideon was not testing God based on doubt of what the Lord can do, and it is clear that it was based on the intention to obey God. The word of God declared in 1 Samuel 1:3, “For the LORD is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.” God knows the heart of who wants to test Him in order to reinforce doubt in their heart. Testing God to reinforce doubt is a sin, and it will not produce the intended result, but the attainment of God’s anger. Thomas a disciple of Jesus, having missed the visitation of Christ after His resurrection, needed a test to confirm when he stated, “The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” (John 20:25) Man has not changed from what they have been made to be, but man’s situations continue to change and affect the world. Gideon and Thomas, do they sound like you? Learn from the written word of God to address your situation.

Prayer for today: In your goodness and mercy O Lord, let me not operate the spirit of doubt in every area of Your visitation in my life