God’s people were living under the oppression of the Midianites. After the people cried out to God, he chose Gideon to deliver them from the hand of Midian. Gideon couldn’t see past his own inadequacies. The Lord promised to be with him. What Gideon needed to see was the unseen God. The solution to dealing with fear is to factor in God, and to see our problems against the backdrop of what He can do.