Dealing With Your Giants



 How do you deal with your giants?

 

1 Sam 17 recounts one strategy. 

 

David was the younger of several brothers… tender of the flocks… musician… not really known as the big man on campus.  His father sent the insignificant youth with some cheese for his brothers, who were mighty men, fighting a battle for king and country… just to check on them and report back. 

 

When he arrived at the battle he found his brothers and the whole army of Israel quaking in fear… all because of a giant who would come out and taunt them. 

 

David, appalled, said, “ who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? “

 

Saul, the king, hearing what David had said, called him in and rebuked the young man, saying, “You are only a youth, but this Goliath has been a trained warrior from his youth”.

 

David explained how he had defended his father’s sheep, stating, “Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.”

 

Saul, apparently happy for anyone to step forward and fight his battle, tried to fit David into his own personal armor.  

 

But that was not how David fought… 

 

that wasn’t HIS ARMOR… 

 

those weren’t HIS weapons.

 

So David  “took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones out of the brook, put them in his shepherd’s bag,  and set out with his sling across the valley to meet the giant.”

 

Goliath, seeing this “champion" Israel had sent, laughed and cursed David.

 

 But David replied, 

“You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a shield: 

but I come to thee IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS, 

the God of the armies of Israel,

 whom you have defied.”

 

DAVID RAN AT GOLIATH…

 

grabbed one stone…

slung it…

killing him!

 

We  think we need preparation with all sorts of weapons…. 

when it only takes one small stone 

grabbed with boldness 

in the NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS…

hurled at the enemy… 

 

To defeat the “giant"!

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