Title: Tired but Followed Faith
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The most common word people say these days is ‘tired’. But no matter how tired we are, we have work to do.
Pray before you get tired
According to the text, Israel had to live in hiding in the mountains because the Midianites were so tyrannical that people could not live. Why would this be such a tragic situation? It is God's punishment. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us, but to bring us back.
When the people of Israel are at the peak of their suffering, they call back to God. Here is the sadness. Why don't we pray before we suffer, and we cry and cry and pray after we are beaten? Even now, it is not too late to return to God. It is faith, but the sad thing is that we must pray before we are tested.
There are two main types of people living in this world. One is the maintenance-type life in which we cry, cry, cling and pray after being tested, and the maintenance-type life in which we pray in advance and receive strength and win. I wish you a maintenance-type life, not a repair-type life.
What to do even if you are tired
Realizing his sin because of Midian, God heard his prayer and sent Gideon to go to war with 300 men carrying pots, torches, and trumpets. The 300 men obey the command to go to war without swords and spears without complaint.
God gives victory to those who obey. Thirty-four people run away after the 300 men who break the jars and blow the trumpet with torches in a surprise attack at night. It is very tiring to destroy 300 men by hitting 135,000 men. However, even if you are tired, you must do the job of annihilating the enemy.
In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus told his disciples to pray so that they would not fall into temptation. However, the disciples could not overcome their fatigue and fell asleep. The disciples, unable to pray because they were tired, deny Jesus and run away. The desire of the flesh to rest because it is tired is against the Holy Spirit. If we do not control the desires of the flesh with the Holy Spirit, we cannot escape from the desires of the flesh, forever and ever.
Spiritual grace is obtained to the extent that I have won the battle with the flesh. We live only when we kill the lusts of the flesh with the spirit.