Two men are talking and one guy says to the other, “You won’t believe the dream I just had.”  

The other guys responds, “Try me.”  

So the dreamer says, “I dreamed about a cake of barley bread tumbling through our camp and it hit one of our tents and turned it upside down and flattened it.  Crazy right?”  He thought about the need to cut out his onion take as it gave him weird dreams.

The friend gave him a grim look and said, “Your dream is not as crazy as you might think.  I’m afraid I know exactly what your dream means.  The cake of barley bread that came tumbling through our camp is none other than Gideon’s sword, and God means to destroy us and all of Midian through His sword.”  

In that conversation, Gideon finally sees what God has been trying to show him and prepare him for.  He gets it.  God is big enough.  More than big enough.  God can use the least qualified person, with the fewest number of resources to accomplish His will, because it is His will that we are accomplishing, and he does it in such a way that we won’t confuse our success as being “our success.”  That’s our “success story” here in Springfield.  God, and God alone, is helping our fellow Springfieldians come alive to the wonder and joy of God’s grace.  It is a slow work, but a lasting work.  We say thanks to our Big God!