The God-Sent by Intelligencer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1886

The God-Sent.

By Intelligencer

WHEN the Lord commanded Gideon to go and save Israel from the hand of the Midianites, Gideon said, "Wherewith shall I save Israel? behold my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." And the Lord said, "Have I not sent thee? Surely I will be with thee." Here is a lesson to the humble poor in the church of Christ, to those who count themselves the least in the Father's house. They are sometimes tempted, on this ground, to beg off from doing some specified work for the Lord, as Gideon did. If all such could be persuaded to look away from and above themselves, unto Him who says, "Have I not sent thee?" and go to work, how precious to them would be the promise, realized in their own experience, "Surely I will be with thee," and what defeats the Midianites would suffer!