When Your Brothers Pick a Fight, Judges 8:1–3

You've done the hard thing. The Lord has blessed it. And the men who turn up looking for a row aren't your enemies — they're your brothers. Ephraim sat out seven years of plunder, then ambushed Gideon at the peak of victory. Gideon answers softly, magnifies their gleaning above his vintage, and the wrath goes out of them in three sentences. A covenant if-then you can use in your marriage, workplace, or church this week.