Self-sufficiency

(Judges 7:2) The Lord said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel boast about themselves against Me, saying, My own hand has delivered me...God reduced their number from 32000 to 300. With an army this vastly outnumbered, there could be no doubt that the victory was from God. Learn to let him fight your battles... Self-sufficiency is a handicap when if causes us to believe that we can do it in our own strength. Like Gideon (Judges 7:2), we must recognize the dangers of fighting in our own strength. We can be confident of the victory against life's challenges and temptations only if we put our confidence in God and not ourselves.