Okay, so I’m reading the story of David and Goliath right? And I find this interesting thing happening; I’m cracking up and rooting for David. Now, I’ve read this story before and heard of it more. Many people know this story or have heard of it as a classic bible story. There’s even a cartoon formed after it on Christian TV, anyway you get the picture. This time though, the story is different and that’s exactly my point. The Bible is so cool and unique in that you can read it over and over, yet each time it’s possible to gain insight previously veiled. Has the story changed? No, but I have. I have more experiences coupled with changed perspectives that happen with time, so the story now reads differently and I’m cracking up as I read it and commenting out loud to myself like… “You tell him David!”
Then it occurs to me. What does this story have to do with me? How can or should I apply this to my life?
David was the least of Jesse’s sons according to presentation to the prophet Samuel. He wasn’t all that tall and he was a shepherd. Yet God had his eye on him because of the relationship he established with God in His alone time tending the sheep. Imagine that, an unpopular youngest son, a worshiper from an alone place called to the forefront. No, selected by God to succeed King Saul as the next King of Israel, but before that He would prove His courage through a series of trying events. One of which was taking down Goliath.
Here’s what totally floats my boat. For forty days the army of Israel was being taunted by this mammoth warrior of the Philistines, Goliath. He had riddled them with fear and no man would withstand Goliath, until David. David appeared on the scene by chance it seems and learned of the standoff to which he replied, ”Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”I Sam 17:26 b. David was bold because He knew who he was. He had taken down a bear and a lion and most importantly he knew the presence of his God, so to hear of the challenge only caused him to draw on his reservoir of experiences.
Who do you think you are? Your answer has everything to do with what you can accomplish.
But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. Daniel 11:32b
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