Fat King Eglon

Subtitle: Defeating the thing in your life that seems powerful, but turns out to be stupid

Fat King Eglon and his incompetent companions kept Israel captive for 18 years.  They were incompetent because they fell for "the oldest trick in the book" and were really gullible and foolish.   And Ehud defeated his adversary with relative ease, but also with a lot of courage and creativity.

So it parallels the things that keep us captive. We assume that they are mighty things that cannot be overcome.  But then when we attack them it turns out they are just fat and stupid.  And it still takes a lot of courage for us to overcome them.

for me it's confidence...fear of rejection...Rejection that I am too quiet, too religious, or not religious enough, or too conservative, or not conservative enough, too boring. There is no way for me to be accepted by all extremes, but I have played that game pretty well.  It is perhaps fear of a rejection that does not even exist.