SELF-SUFFICIENCY

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Self-reliance is an enemy when it makes us believe that we can always do what is needed in our own strength, but throughout biblical history God has taught us that self-reliance is a very dangerous state in the life of man.
God showed his followers that they could not be self-sufficient because he would become one of his strongest enemies in the spiritual life which would lead him not to depend on God but on the reality of his own strength and only on what they were at. its scope.

For example, God used men like Gideon to demonstrate his victory by placing all his trust in him, so when Gideon goes to fight with the Midianites, God reduces the number of people to show him that it is not with the strength of man that they would win. with the number of people and it reduces him from 10,000 to 300 men willing to die to liberate Israel; but the one who would give them the victory was the same God who would fight for them

Judges 7
With these three hundred men who licked the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hands; and let all the other people each to his place. ... 9 And it happened that that very night Jehovah said to him: Get up and go down to the camp, because I have delivered it into your hands.
(RVR1960)

For Gideon it was not easy to face the Medianite army and with his strength he would never have done it because he had understood that when God reduced the number of people to go to battle he understood the message perfectly although he felt a little fear but God gives him courage allowing you to hear a conversation near the camp
While Gideon was near his camp, he heard a man share a dream that he had to do with the destruction of the Midianite army. That dream gave Gideon courage.

Certainly when we put self-sufficiency aside and begin to trust and believe in God, all things change and God gives us the victory in everything, because as God looked at Gideon's fear, he sent him to hear a conversation to restore his courage.

Judges 7: 13-15
13 When Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling his companion a dream, saying: Behold, I dreamed a dream: I saw a barley bread rolling to the camp of Midian, and he came to the tent, and struck it from such that it fell, and overturned it from top to bottom, and the tent fell.
14 And his companion answered and said, This is nothing but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has given the Midianites with the entire camp into their hands.
15 When Gideon heard the story of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped; and returned to the camp of Israel, he said, "Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hands."
(RVR1960)

The best thing that cannot happen as Christians is to learn to depend on God regardless of the battles we have to fight because he himself will take care of putting our enemies in our hands. For this reason, we should never feel self-sufficient because God is the one who gives us strength to fight the good fight and give us victory.