WARNING PREACHY…
The
whole story of David and Goliath is found in 1 Samuel 17, take
five minutes to read it if you are unfamiliar with it.
What
I want to look at specifically this morning are the verses in 1 Samuel 17:28-37.
David
was just a kid and all of his brothers were at the war between the Israelites
and the Philistines. He was young enough
and small enough that he wasn’t allowed to go to battle, so his job was to stay
home to tend the flocks and take food to his older brothers; who were at the
front line of battle.
On
one occasion, David was at the front line and heard the largest of the
Philistine warriors taunting the Israelites to fight by insulting and blaspheming
God. David was incensed and started asking the soldiers
of Israel what the King offered to the man who would defend God’s honor and “remove
this disgrace from Israel.”
Starting
in verse 28, David’s brother over-heard him and started telling him that he was
too small to kill the giant. Eventually
work got back to King Saul that David wanted to battle the Giant but he too
(verse 33) told David that he was not able to do this because he was too small
and inexperienced.
In
verse 34 David told the king that he had killed both a lion and a bear with his
bare hands while working in the fields and as sure as God delivered David from
them, He would deliver him from this giant.
The King was convinced and told David to go with God’s blessing.
The
rest of the story is that David went to battle against the giant and succeeded
in killing him and taking his head off with his very own sword.
As
I read the story of David and Goliath I am reminded of David’s great faith that
“God’s got this.” A dozen times a day I
worry or fret over one situation or another and David’s faith tells me that my
days would be much more peaceful if I would just relax and look at all of my situations
with the same confidence in God that David had; easier said than done I know, my
situations often feel to me like I am fighting a lion, a bear, or a giant.
But
I am going to bet that if I stop looking at my situations, or assessing how I
feel, and focus on the ability of the honor of my God, then I too, like David,
will find victory over the obstacles that come against me.
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