Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
Anxious minds are very good at writing the worst possible next scene. You send a slightly awkward message, and by bedtime you have pictured the friendship ending. Somewhere in that same habit, God gets cast as the one watching the darkest version of you play out.
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