1 Samuel 17:45-47
(45) David answered: You’ve come out to fight me with a sword and a spear and a dagger. But I’ve come out to fight you in the name of the LORD All-Powerful. He is the God of Israel’s army, and you have insulted him too! (46) Today the LORD will help me defeat you. I’ll knock you down and cut off your head, and I’ll feed the bodies of the other Philistine soldiers to the birds and wild animals. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a real God. (47) Everybody here will see that the LORD doesn’t need swords or spears to save his people. The LORD always wins his battles, and he will help us defeat you.
David had a why, a vision, an end in mind, a purpose and that fueled the fire that was burning in his heart. Many of us become faint at heart because we focus on the disadvantages and the more we do so the bigger they seem to us.
Our vision, our why is not convincing enough and so in the midst of adversity we give up. But not David. Goliath was a giant, way bigger than the average man. David was a teenager, just a boy as King Saul reminded him.
Goliath was a trained soldier he had the skill the strength and the strategy. David was a simple shepherd boy with no military training.
Goliath had weapons that would tear a man apart with one swing; he had body armor to protect him a shield to block any attacks directed towards him. David had a stick, a sling and 5 smooth stones and most importantly he had God,s backing because he had a divine vision, a divine why!
David says to Goliath, the reason why I will kill you and cut off your head is simply one….not so that I can be famous or prove to the world that I am stronger than you, God will give me the strength to take you down so that the whole world will know that Israel has a real God.
Everybody here will see that the LORD doesn’t need swords or spears to save his people. The LORD always wins his battles, and he will help us defeat you.
David’s vision was to please God, his why was so that God would be glorified. Through this his people Israel were reminded that though they were afraid and in hiding, God was right there with them all along and He had already given them the victory all they had to do was go out in faith and fight.
The fight was fixed! As for the philistines they would know that the God of Israel is the one true God the God who can empower a simple boy with a sling and stones to kill Goliath their champion a well-trained soldier with just one strike.
Now that’s the God I serve and may all I do seek to glorify him and not me. Why are you doing what you are doing, what’s your vision?
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