Sometimes, we have these cycles in our lives, where we start out being well-intentioned. We stick to our goals, for a bit, but then what happens is we find ourselves right back to where we started! We are doing the same thing we always did, because you know what, old habits die hard! Real hard. What we find when we jump into the story of Gideon is that the nation of Israel (God’s chosen nation) was doing really well following after God, but after a couple of years, the nation got back into bad habits and now were actually doing the complete opposite of good!