The formidable sight of Goliath, this giant of a man, caused fear throughout Saul's army and not one of them, including the king, were willing to take him on as Goliath was requesting. That is, except David. He saw this man full of pride and intimidation and said the words of our text above.
Now, Goliath stood 9 feet 9 inches - 6 cubits and a span and his armour, a bronze helmet, coat of mail weighed a further 9 stone - 5 thousand shekels. Put this together with the bronze armour on his legs, and the bronze javelin between his shoulders, he was carrying some weight and yet, it didn't appear to bother him. In comparison, David was of short stature with hardly any weight on him at all, so Saul insisted David wear his armour but when he did, David could hardly move and decided to just wear his ordinary clothes for battle.
David took his staff and 5 smooth stones taken from a nearby brook, and his sling and set off to meet his opponent, Goliath or, champion as he was known within the Philistine army. He was known as this because, a champion is clearly superior and has the attributes of a winner. Goliath certainly lived up to this label.
Now in natural terms, this was an unfair battle. There was no way that David could win this contest. However, David was not of the natural but, the supernatural and when God is on your side, giants fall. Goliath was full of pride, abusive, threatening, a bully and full of intimidation. David on the other hand was full of the Holy Spirit and God had put a fighter within him. Goliath may have had his armour on from his head to his feet, but, when David slung just one of his stones, it got through all of this and hit him on the forehead knocking him over. David rushed up and finished the kill.
There is a lesson here, your level of fear can reveal your closeness to God. The more you are afraid, the further you are from God. The less fearful you are, the closer you are to Him; and like I said, when God is on your side, you are a winner. It doesn't matter what the opposition is or has, you will win. From a human perspective, Goliath looked like a giant, too big and powerful to defeat; but from David's Godly perspective, Goliath looked like a target too big to miss.
'Whatever giants you face right now, take a moment to look higher and see that they are dwarfed by the God who cares for you and loves you.' Warren W. Wiersbe
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