When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled….

Judges 7:22

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Judges 7:1-9

Today’s world is run by numbers. Television shows are produced or cancelled depending on ratings. Politicians rise or fall depending on polls. If we’re not careful, we can evaluate God’s work the same way. Numbers, in their proper place, aren’t wrong. After all, an entire book of the Bible is named Numbers.

Yet we mustn’t despise the day of small things (Zechariah 4:10). Gideon started with 32,000 soldiers, but God said, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself” (Judges 7:2). The Lord whittled his army down to 300 men who were willing to shatter the jars, hold the torches, and cry, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”

The victory was claimed.

The Lord specializes in using people with small numbers, meager resources, and insufficient strength. If you feel disappointed today because of some statistic in your life, remember—there’s strength even in small numbers when God is the mathematician.

Just as with Gideon, so with the church…. Encompassed as we are today by the enemy, we will not win the battle with the cowards and the careless, but with a dedicated minority of the committed.

Vance Havner

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Exodus 1–7

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