Day 3 touring Israel has been amazing. Driving up to Jerusalem and imagining all the great men and women of the past that made the pilgrimage three times a year on foot was humbling. And then, looking out over the city and seeing where ancient Jerusalem, the Valley of Kidron and the Mount of Olives side by side stirred my spirit.

(Jerusalem is in the dead center of the picture, then slightly to the right is a small valley, the Valley of Kidron, then to the far right of the picture where you see a small tower is the Mount of Olives.)

But, I think the thing that really hit home to me today was while we were sitting at Gideon Springs (The Spring of Harod). This was the spring that Gideon and his army camped at in Judges 7:1. I even drank from the spring like his men in verses 5-7, I’m not saying how I drank it .

One of the things from this passage that our guide made come alive was the way in which God works through the least of these time and time again. In chapter 6 verse 15 Gideon says that he is of the tribe of Manasseh, one of the poorest tribes of Israel, he was from the weakest clan in the tribe, and he was the least of his clan. He was the poorest of the poor of the nation, and yet God chose to do great things in and through him.

I see this all through the Bible, from Joseph being sold into slavery to Jesus choosing the most unlikely men to be His disciples. Over and over again God uses the least likely, most obscure characters to do amazing things.

It makes me want to be the under dog trying to take on the world. What about you?

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