Mon Mar 03 2025

READ: JUDGES 3:12-30; 1 CORINTHIANS 1:18-31; 2 CORINTHIANS 12:6-10 In a world that prized normal, I was abnormal. A left-hander in a world of righties. For me, being left-handed meant not learning archery because there were no left-handed bows. Not being able to use most scissors. Being left-handed made me feel like the villain rather than the hero. Then I read Ehud’s story. Ehud lived in a nation filled with fear. An oppressive Moabite government had ruled Israel for the past eighteen years. Judges 3:15 says, “the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite.” Ehud traveled to the foreign court to pay tribute to Eglon, king of Moab. When he entered, Ehud told the king, “I have a secret” (verse 19). So the king sent everyone away. He didn’t envision Ehud as a threat. The guards would have searched him. But they wouldn’t have checked the right side—where a left-handed man would hide his weapon. Once...