FAITH: REASON AT REST
The late Manley Beasley defined faith as a "reason at rest with God." To me, that's powerful, but it hits me even harder when I remember that he went on to say, "Faith is dependency upon God, and this God-dependency only begins when self-dependency ends." And what do we see David saying? He says that the same God whose help he has already experienced in smaller ways will be with him when he faces bigger things. And, later in the passage, David tells Goliath that he faces him "in the name of the Lord."