Moment of Meditation: Gideon's Fleece (Judges 6:37)

Original Broadcast: July 2009

Monthly Theme: The Judges of Israel

[Gideon said:] "Look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor."
(Judges 6:37)

Gideon's Fleece

We pick up where we left off last time. Gideon still isn't sure that God wants him to deliver Israel. One final set of proofs that Gideon needs to see that this is truly God's way and not one of Satan's tricks. He still wasn't quite sure that this was what God really wanted.

So, he devised the fleece test. He placed a wool fleece on the threshing floor and said that if God wanted him to deliver Israel that the fleece would be wet and the ground around it dry when the dew came in the morning. He woke up the next morning and saw it just as he had requested of God--wet fleece, dry ground. Still not completely convinced, he tells God that he wants it reversed the next morning. Next morning he wakes up to wet ground and a dry fleece.

God was truly calling him. Gideon was slow of heart. James probably had Gideon in mind when he writes, "Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak" (1:19).

What is God calling you to do? God's callings come in such great variety. Not always in the form of delivering a nation from its enemies. Sometimes it's as simple as being a good parent, good child, good brother or sister. Just ministering to the people in your life in the little things you do every day. You don't need a fleece to tell you if God wants you to do something good for someone else. As Nike® would say, "Just do it." Amen.