God said that those who kneeled to drink should be sent home. This had nothing to do with who was going to be the better soldier. God simply wanted to reduce the size of Gideon’s army to a small number because God always saves his people in a way which will cause us to praise him. By saving his people with only 300 men, everyone who heard about it would say: ‘Isn’t God great the way he saved his people: the only reason Gideon and his army won was because God was with them.’ God saves us from our sins and from eternal condemnation in a way that causes us to praise him. He saves us by his Son who died on the cross to pay for our sins. When we finally come into the presence of God in eternity, no one will be boasting about themselves and what they have done. We’ll all be boasting about God and what he did to save us by his Son.
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