04.01.2015 Old Testament: Jdg 6.19–21

To read the Bible in a year, read Judges 6–7 on April 1, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

An angel appeared to Gideon. To know for sure that it was an angel, Gideon asked the angel if he could bring an offering and set it before the angel,

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot; and he brought them out to Him under the terebinth tree and presented them. The Angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And he did so. Then the Angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire rose out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of the Lord departed out of his sight (Judges 6.19–21). 

Gideon took the time to prepare a goat and unleavened bread. He brought those items, along with broth, and put the food on a rock, as the angel instructed him, and poured out the broth. The angel did not eat any of these things, but touched them with his staff, and fire came out of the rock and consumed the meal.

Did it bother Gideon that the angel did not eat the meal he had prepared? Would it have bothered you? I don’t think so in either case, because the whole thing would have been such an honor!

Sometimes we work on a project, but it is not used as we intended. However, if we did it to honor someone, then let us be happy.