priority dedication to one’s calling. But when the One giving the command holds the highest rank of all, we had better not pay any attention to the critics if we intend to serve acceptably. . God told Gideon, “Go in this thy might.” This might is not Gideon’s own might, but the strength which God gave him, “i.e. the strength which thou [Gideon] hast, since Jehovah is with thee … The demonstrative ‘this’ points to the strength which had just been given to him through the
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