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“And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water” (Judges 7:4).
Gideon must have been surprised when the Lord said that he still had too many soldiers. The Lord told him to bring them down to the water. Read verses 5-7, and you will see the further test God gave them. Those men who got down on their knees to drink were the largest number — 9,700. Those who took water up in their hands and drank like a dog, lapping with their tongues, were only 300 men. Then the Lord told Gideon that these 300 men would be his army to fight the Midianites.
Again, this is a lesson for us. The men needed water, but some were quick about it, and took it up in their hands. They had important business to fight the Midianites, and they did not relax while taking a drink. But the others knelt down, taking a good long drink.
In this world we should be like those 300 men. We need food, shelter, clothing, and other things to live in the world, but we should not spend all our time on these things. We have important work to do for the Lord, and that should be what we are thinking about.
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