~~~QUESTIONS FOR GOD ~~

---"Go in the strength you have...I will be with you."
---(Judges 6:14,16)--

~~~DO YOU ever wonder why God has allowed suffering in your life? Old Testament hero Gideon did. One day "the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, 'Mighty hero, the LORD is with you!" Gideon responded, "If the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us?" (Judges 6:12-13 / NLT). Gideon wanted to know why it seemed as if God had abandoned His people.

God didn't answer that question. After Gideon had endured seven years of enemy attacks, starvation, and hiding in caves, God didn't explain why He never intervened. God could have revealed Israel's past sin as the reason, but instead He gave Gideon hope for the future. God said, "Go with the strength you have...I will be with you" (vv. 14,16 / NLT).

When Gideon finally believed that God was with him and would help him, he built an altar and called it "the LORD is peace" (v.24), Jehovah Shalom.~~.

There is peace in knowing that whatever we do and wherever we go, we go with God who promised never to leave or forsake His followers. We can always trust our LORD, El-Shaddai, the Almighty God.~~

---"Heavenly Father, there is so much we do not understand. We take Your Word as truth. ~~ "All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; So that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." [2 Timothy 3:16,17/ NASB]
---ODB/JBS~
[Friend, God can not lie. It is impossible for our Creator to lie. Let's take hold of the hope set before us and trust His promises. [Hebrews 6:18] ~
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