Jephthah...

I was so very grateful for Jephthah today!  I woke up cranky, complaining and filled with me.  From there I went into a mind spiral that centered on my failures and faults.  So by the time I sat down to read my Bible I was not in the greatest of places.

Enter Jephthah to remind me that my God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.

Oh yeah...

Wanting to find out more about Jephthah, I turned in my Thompson Chain Reference Bible to #1876.  There, I discovered that his name is recorded as one of the giants of faith in Hebrews 11.  I turned there and read the names of the others whose names were recorded there.   Guess what...none of them were perfect...they were all sinners like me.   All of them needed a Savior.

—So grateful to God that He brought me up out of a horrible pit, set my feet upon a rock and established my steps.
—So grateful to God that I can never fall further than His everlasting arms.
—so grateful for His word that is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, that rights my thinking.

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 8:38-39

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.—Hebrews 12:1-2