Is It Ever Ok To Test God? CQ Podcast Highlight
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Was Gideon testing God? Should we follow in Gideon's footsteps? To hear the whole discussion listen to the full podcast: https://christianquestions.com/character/1302-doubts-part-i/
But sometimes I think Christians today will, you know, air quote, put out the fleece and um, they want God to make a decision, a clear decision for them. And it wouldn't be, wouldn't be wonderful if we had a clear sign for every decision that we had, but should we be testing God and looking for direct answers on, on one. And to me there's this attitude of challenge. Like remember when Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness and he said, if you are the Son of God knowing full well that he was command these stones to become loaves of bread, or you know, we may hear an atheist saying something like, well if God's really there, then he should talk to me right now.
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Well, if God chose Gideon, that meant he could win the battle. As Christians, we want to follow God's will and not our own. If we called, if he called us to follow in his son's footsteps, he knows we can do it. He doesn't call those who don't have the ability to be faithful.
See, we have to be careful to not misapply the pud out the fleece. And like Julie, like you said, it's easily misapplied. It is not to say God show me, should I go left or right? Right. It is to say, Lord, help me establish the confidence in myself that you have shown to me to do what you have already put before me. It's an entirely different approach. It's not about telling God, Hey, you this and I'll do that. That's, that's not it. It was Gideon saying, this is big, this is bigger than I feel I can handle. Can you help me gain that self-assurance? So it's, and and again, it's not self-assurance as in pride, it's self-assurance as in humble reverence for the guiding hand of God for me today, tomorrow, and the next day.
And I think this was a specific circumstance. Yes,
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You know, it's, and we might miss appropriate God Gideon's, you know, test here and
