Who Used His Left Hand to Save a Nation?

Which hand a person favors is not the kind of detail the Bible usually bothers to mention. But in Judges 3, it's the detail that changes everything. Ehud was a Benjamite, from the very tribe whose name means "son of my right hand." He was left-handed. Israel had been groaning under eighteen years of Moabite oppression. God raised up Ehud to deliver them, and Ehud had a plan. He forged a short, double-edged sword — about a foot and a half long — and strapped it to his right thigh, hidden beneath his clothing. Every trained soldier carried his weapon on the left. No one would think to check the other side. He approached King Eglon with a tribute from the people of Israel. Then, as he turned to leave, he doubled back. He had a secret message, he said — one meant for the king's ears alone. Eglon sent his attendants out of the room. In the quiet that followed, Ehud reached across his body with his left hand, drew the blade from his right thigh, and drove it into the king. He slipped out, locked the doors behind him, and was gone before anyone realized what had happened. When Ehud sounded the trumpet in the hill country, Israel came down and took back the territory the Moabites had held. Eighty years of peace followed. The quality that set Ehud apart from every other Benjamite soldier was the very thing God used to free his people. It wasn't despite his difference. It was because of it. God has made you unique in the same way, and the things that make you distinctly you are not accidents. What is something about you that feels small or unlikely? And how might God be asking you to use it in service of the people around you?