While we don’t see the huge giant taunting us as Goliath did, we still have Goliaths in a variety forms in our world today—and they do seem to taunt us!. As Max Lucado in his article “Take Goliath Down” said, there is “Debt. Disaster. Dialysis. Danger. Deceit. Disease. Depression.” These giants loom heavy on our lives and in our hearts and seek to destroy us. How are we to manage?
The most obvious response to that question is to react as David did. He talked with God and had a strong belief that his small stone could bring down that giant. Not because he would be the one throwing the stone; he’d done that with other wild animals, as he protected the flock in his care. He knew God had helped him there and believed God was in 'the working' to control the stone he would throw, to hit its mark. Again, I want faith like that!
Along with believing God will help us through prayer and our belief in what he can do and what he has already done, we also must have a heart filled with eagerness to please God. This is sometimes called passion. David was convinced of the victory over Goliath. He didn’t run away from the battlefield, but went forward.
David was one most people would have called foolish. He was the least likely person there to be able to do something about the skulking coward before them. He was a simple, young shepherd boy. Not only did Goliath doubt his ability, but also Goliath’s fellow Philistines, and even his very own brothers! Yet instead of shrinking in fear, he boldly said, ‘let me take him’! And what made this even more spectacular was his weapon of choice was a sling and some stones!
One stone was all he needed to give the final blow to Goliath, but David could not have know if other Goliath’s in the neighborhood would come charging after him. The extra stones might have been reassurance he had the necessary tools to bring down more than one enemy!
Our lives are often filled with more than one ‘crisis’ at a time. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed when not only illness knocks us over, but also debt or another disaster, all flying in at once. If we perceive our calamities as ‘Goliath’s’ and prepare our souls with stones and a sling, like David did, we can also have victory!
We need to be careful to put on the whole armor of God like David projected, ---through prayer, his passion for following and believing in God, and his faith in a God who never left him to his own defenses. We need to believe God will give us everything we need when faced with some kind of ‘demon'. We can move forward in whatever battle or giant we face while using our God given ‘sling and stones’ of prayer, faith in what God knows, has already done, and is doing, to bring our giants down.
Are you ready to defeat the enemy?
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