The Angel of the Lord appeared to him a d said to him, "The Lord is with you, O Valiant warrior." Then Gideon said to him, "O my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, Did not the Lord bring g us up from Egypt?" But now the Lord has abandoned us and gives us into the hand of Midian."
JUDGES 6:12-13
Gideon was a small man in the smallest tribe of Israel. When God called him to lead the people in the battle, his own sense of inadequacy flooded his thoughts and feeling. Note how the Angel of the Lord addressed him: "The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior."
God sees things about you that may not see or know about yourself. He saw Gideon's true identity when the man himself didn't see it at all. He knows the same about you. Believe what He says about you in Scripture. Embrace and act on the identity He has given you, regardless of whatever you feel it or think it. What God says about you is true. You can base your actions on your true identity even when your emotions contradict the truth.
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