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Judges chapter 8, verse 27, and Gideon made an effid of it and put it in his city, in

Oprah, and all Israel horde after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

I want to encourage you to listen to the danger here, the warning here for every single one of

our lives. So just to make sure you get the context, Gideon has, by God's grace, been used at this

point to bring deliverance to God's people from the

Midianites. God has given him success. Yet here in Judges 827, Gideon does something that goes

against the Word of God. He made an effort and put it in his city in a way that led Israel

into idolatry. So don't miss the danger and the warning here of how success can just like that

so quickly lead to sin, how even being used by God to do something or experiencing God's

grace in a powerful way, we in our sinful nature can just like that turn around and do that which goes totally against

God's word and lead other people into sin. Success, if we're not careful, can lead to sin in all

kinds of ways in our lives. And the takeaway is guard your heart at all times. As we read through

God's word, we see constant exhortations

to guard our hearts and our minds and our lives when things are going well. When we experience

some sort of success or blessing, so we pray. God help us to guard our hearts always, all day long, all day long. Today,

tomorrow, in every situation, every circumstance, and specifically, oh God, based on this picture

of Gideon and Judges 8, we pray that when you bless us or give us favor or we experience success in certain ways,

please help us to stay humble and close to you in those moments.

We pray that you'd help us to grow in humility, knowing that you're the giver of all favor and success and blessing.

And God, we pray that you would keep us from becoming confident in ourselves

or taking the influence you give us with others and using it in ways that are not glorifying to you.

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