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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Judges 4:17-24; Judges 5:1-11
Sisera fled on foot; his nine hundred chariots of iron were no help to him. He thought he would find refuge in the Kenite’s tent. But instead he met death at the hand of Jael, a woman of faith. The Kenite family is interesting. Hobab, her ancestor, had long ago refused to go with Israel (Numbers 10:29-30). But now his descendants follow the children of Judah (Judges 1:16) and take part in Israel’s battles and victories.
Barak comes unexpectedly and finds his enemy destroyed by a woman; thus he loses his part in the honour of the victory, just as Deborah had warned him. But God discerns faith even when we can hardly see a glimmer. Barak’s name appears in the list of men of faith in Hebrews 11:32. What grace this shows! The little that the Lord allows us to do for Him, often all mixed up with trust in man, this little is of value to Him and He will remember it. The day is long past when all the people sang on the banks of the Red Sea. In this time of weakness, we only hear two voices, Deborah’s and Barak’s, a man and a woman of faith. But their song is none the less triumphant. It begins by extolling the LORD to whom belongs the glory of the victory.
