The Garments We Wear

Judges 6:34 (ESV)
"But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon,
and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him. "

Okay, I know at first this verse doesn’t seem to be that impactful. However, I couldn’t get “the Lord clothed Gideon” out of my head and my heart. Let me give you a little context here. Their leader, Joshua, has recently died and they have already gotten away from serving the Lord their God. In fact, the 6th chapter of Judges starts out by saying that they were doing evil in the sight of the Lord. As a result of their sin, they were being attacked by their enemy, the Midianites. Under such distress the children call out to God for help. God chose Gideon to be the leader of His rescue mission.

Right before the time came for Gideon to bring the tribes together to fight, we read this verse above. It’s almost as if God was thinking… “I know what’s in store for you and I want to make sure you’ve got the right outfit on for this task. Therefore, I’m going to clothe you with what you need.”

Read more on this at:
http://www.titus2atthewell.com/i-ve-laid-out-your-clothes-for-you

I love when God does this. Today we were at our old church, Living Hope, for their Big Tent Revival that is going on for 4 days. It was a beautiful morning. God was so good to us and gave us an amazing cool breeze blowing thru the tent as we worshipped Him and you could literally feel the Holy Spirit coming in to meet us.

Pastor Ben said at one point, "What garments are you going to choose to wear? Every day it's a choice which garments you choose to pick up and put on."

And then tonite I read the above post. Wow....God is speaking loud.