And Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the Lord go out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.
Judges 4:14
God uses the most interesting and the most average of people to do His great work. He will accomplish His means using the men and women who will simply make themselves available to Him. In this chapter there are three people God uses to save Israel from the Canaanite oppressions committed by Sisera and his army.
God had already raised Deborah as a prophetic judge for Israel. And when the time was right, she summoned Barak, a military commander, to encourage him to gather his troops and defeat the oppressors. But Barak would not act without Deborah’s prophetic ministry alongside him. And so the unlikely team of prophetess and general together lead Israel into battle. There is a plan in action. God is giving them strength. I can hear the “A-Team” theme song playing as the action starts!
But Sisera escapes the battle, appearing to successfully elude capture. God is in control, though! He raises up a third deliverer... a very unassuming nomad woman named Jael, who under the guise of hospitality, slips Sisera a mickey, and when the Canaanite general snores away in her tent, Jael drives a tent peg through his temple with a worker’s mallet. She must have been one strong woman! God uses whom He will and justice is done as Israel is saved. Salvation is accomplished. God delights in writing His story using regular lives!
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