“Faint, yet pursuing” (Judges viii. 4).
It is a great thing thus to learn to depend upon God to work through our
feeble resources, and yet, while so depending, to be absolutely faithful
and diligent, and not allow our trust to deteriorate into supineness and
indolence. We find no sloth or negligence in Gideon, or his three hundred;
though they were weak and few, they were wholly true, and everything in
them ready for God to use to the very last. “Faint yet pursuing” was their
watchword as they followed and finished their glorious victory, and they
rested not until the last of their enemies were destroyed, and even their
false friends were punished for their treachery and unfaithfulness.
So God still calls the weakest instruments, but when He chooses and
enables them they are no longer weak, but “mighty through God,” and
faithful through His grace to every trust and opportunity; “trusting,” as
Dr. Chalmers used to say, “as though all depended upon God, and working as
though all depended upon themselves.”
Teach me, my blessed Master, to trust and obey.