DECEMBER 1

Judges 6:1

BOOK OF JUDGES FOCUS ON GIDEON THE SOLDIER

This month’s study is from The Book of Judges in The Old Testament. The Book of Judges is a book of history. History tells us about people and events that happened in the past. As well as being interesting, many precious lessons can be learnt by studying history. The time of the Judges took place after their leader Joshua led the children of Israel to conquer The Promised Land.

After Joshua’s death, the people did not always stay faithful to the Lord. Their fellowship (close relationship) with God was broken when they fell into sin. The Lord punished them by letting another nation conquer them.

During their sufferings as servants, they would repent and cry to the Lord. The Lord would then raise up a leader to save and help them. This leader or deliverer was known as the Judge. There were different judges, thus the name of the book – Judges. Some judges were good and others bad. This pattern of fellowship, sin, punishment, servitude (being servants or slaves), repentance, and deliverance happened again and again.

This month, we’ll learn the exciting story of one of the good judges. His name is Gideon. The title of our study is Gideon, a valiant soldier. The word "valiant" means brave, like a hero.



We’ll see that Gideon was a soldier of the Lord. He was a literal one, as he had to lead Israel against many enemy forces. But he was also a spiritual soldier for the Lord. When we think of soldiers, we think of fit, hardworking and persistent individuals fighting for a common cause. Spiritually, we must be like that. We must be a hardworking Christian in that we persevere in doing our Quiet Time ("QT") and our Junior RPG readings, so that we can be spiritually "fit"!

Thought: Are you regular in QT?
Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to be a good soldier and be consistent in my QT and RPG readings so that I may grow and be a strong and fit Christian! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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