- Lesson 3 in the Connect360 unit “The Conquerors: Heroes of the Faith” focuses on Judges 3:12-30.
All of us have weaknesses, maybe best described as frailties, dysfunctions, disorders, short-comings, disadvantages or handicaps. Maybe for you it is a physical weakness or a lack of education. Perhaps it is a learning disorder, anxiety, deafness, autism, dyslexia or a myriad of other things. We are reminded in the life of Ehud that in our weaknesses, God gives us power and grace. Consider the power God gave Moses and his speech impediment or difficulty in Exodus 4:15 God tells Moses, “I will be with your mouth…and will teach you what to do.”
Consider the grace God gave Paul in his weakness in 2 Corinthians 12:7-9: “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
It is also hard not to hear this story of a trumpet blasting and not consider the implications for the day when God will play his trumpet in victory. First Thessalonians 4:16-17 states: “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”
Just as Ehud played that trumpet to announce victory, freedom and peace, so the Lord will also one day play a trumpet blast that will be heard around the world. And on that day, we will enter into an eternity of peace in the presence of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Compiled by Stan Granberry, marketing coordinator for GC2 Press, formerly known as BaptistWay Press.
To learn more about GC2 Press and the Connect360 Bible study series, or to order materials, click here.
We seek to connect God’s story and God’s people around the world. To learn more about God’s story, click here.
Send comments and feedback to Eric Black, our editor. For comments to be published, please specify “letter to the editor.” Maximum length for publication is 300 words.