72- External Circumstances

 

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8- External Circumstances

As an example of such cases is Gideon. When his faith weakened concerning the care of God, the angel told him “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!" Gideon said to Him, "O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, `Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?' But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites”? (Judges 6:12-13).

In this way, the faith may weaken if the distress lasted long or if it became stronger.

The faith of the disciples weakened and they doubted when the waves of the sea broke over the boat, as we have discussed this issue before here on st-takla.org in other sections. They told the Lord “Do You not care that we are perishing?” (Mark 4:38-40).