In Diffidence I Hid Myself In A Cave Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

In fear, I hid myself
inside a cave in darkness.

In diffidence, I dared not
to look into the light.

I was a broken person.

Then He came to me.

He found me as He found
Gideon in the cave.

He found me as He found
the lost sheep among thorns.

I was carried on His shoulder.

(The Bible Story of Gideon -
In this Bible story, from chapter 6 of the book of Judges, Gideon is called upon to save the people of Israel by leading them against the Midianites)

There was a man among the Israelites who did not want to worship any but Yahweh. His name was Gideon, and one day as he sat threshing wheat by the wine-press to hide it from the Midianites. An angel of the Lord appeared and spoke to him, saying, "The Lord is with you, mighty man of valour and you have been chosen to save Israel."

The next day Gideon took ten of his servants and went up to the hill on which an altar had been erected to the false gods whom the people were worshiping. He threw down the false altars and built an altar to God in the same place, and on it he made a burnt offering to God.

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