The question for today is from Judges 6:13.
“If the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?”
Gideon asked the question that lives in hospital rooms and quiet bedrooms. It slips through the cracks of broken hearts: If God is really here, why is life falling apart?
He wasn’t being rebellious—just real. Life was hard. Enemies were winning. Hope felt distant. So Gideon asked what we’ve all whispered: “Where is God in all this?”
And God? He didn’t flinch. Didn’t scold. Didn’t leave. He leaned in.
He called Gideon “mighty warrior” (Judges 6:12), not because Gideon felt mighty, but because God saw beyond the fear. God saw what Gideon would become—not what he was. That’s how He sees us too.
Faith, you see, isn’t the absence of questions. It’s choosing to believe—even with tears in your eyes and doubts in your heart. God doesn’t wait for you to get it all together. He meets you right in the mess.
So if your heart has been asking, “Why has all this happened?”—you’re in good company. Gideon asked it. And God answered, not with an explanation, but with a calling.
God’s presence isn’t proven by ease—it’s revealed in the middle of the storm.
I’m Lonnie Davis and these are thoughts worth thinking.