10-Dec-2025 | Week 50

The Holy Nativity Fast

Judges 7:19-22
Entrust it all to Him
“So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” And every man stood in his place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.”
Commentary
“Let us imagine this very strange scene: three hundred men carrying empty pitchers, trumpets and torches inside the empty pitchers. Anyone who sees them would never think they are going to war but probably to a show; they have no swords for war, how can they gain victory?”

~ Fr Daoud Lamie

Reflection
Question 1
Do I ever cap God’s ability to carry me through the seemingly impossible? What are some practical things I can do to learn to entrust it all to God?