The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
"Go in this thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian; have not I sent thee?"  (Judges 6:14).  This was Gideon's commission from God Himself to deliver Israel, but Gideon, like many another great man who has been called to some tremendous task, hesitated from a strong feeling of humility and unworthiness.  "Such humility is the usual companion of true greatness."[10]  Both Jeremiah and Moses expressed similar feelings of unworthiness and inadequacy when called to their mighty work.