“Gideon said to him, ‘Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about? They said, “Hasn’t the LORD brought us out of Egypt?” But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.’”
— Judges 6:13 (CSB)

Gideon voices a question many believers have asked during difficult seasons: If God is with us, why is this happening? His circumstances made it difficult for him to see God’s presence, yet God had not forgotten him or His people. This verse reminds us that questions and struggles do not necessarily mean an absence of faith; sometimes they become the place where God begins to reveal what He is about to do. Even when we cannot see His hand, God is still at work.