“Less is more”Terry Dashner…………Faith Fellowship Church of Broken Arrow, OK 74013
I read again God’s words to Gideon. As I read these familiar words they pulsated throughout my afternoon. God told Gideon, “’…and you shall defeat Midian as one man.’” (Judges 6:16) (NASB)
As one person you will subdue
enemy. Has God ever spoken words like these to you? Has He ever reassured you that you would be an army of one against forces of evil assaulting you?
Before I go further with this topic, let me make a bold statement. God doesn’t defeat enemies of Cross by masses, but by one. The one is Jesus Christ. We are one in Him. In Him we are greater than all world’s armies, navies, air corps, or special-forces. In Christ and through Him—although we two (Jesus and me) are fewer—yet we are mighty in battle over hoards and masses of evil. Do you believe this? I believe it is true.
It’s not committees of world that move forces of good. It’s lone person appalled at sight of evil and injustice. It’s not thousands that attend churches every Sunday that carry out ministry and mission statements. It’s a handful of lovers who love God and people more than they love luxury of comfort zones. Are you hearing me? Can you agree with this bold proposition?
Gideon had 32,000 soldiers to kick Midianites back to Midianite country. He kept losing men up to day of battle, but God was pruning Gideon’s army. God told Gideon he had too many troops. God pruned ranks until there were only 300 men. This begs question, when is less—more?
Less is more when God is in it. As a matter of fact if you try to add more help to God’s help, your additional help will just get in way. Lord, all I need is you, plus wealth, housing, career, popularity, and more help—right? Wrong. Jesus said He is all we need. How can this be? If we have Jesus, we have a legal and universal right to everything else we need and even desire for this life. If your building foundation is deep and expansive, you can build out and up, up, up. If you have no foundation or one that is too small, well, you get picture…Jesus is true foundation, Rock, Corner Stone, the…
