If David Can Defeat Goliath, So Can I

Now, up to this point(up to I Samuel 17), David had never fought in a war, but yet it was little ole David that defeated the giant Goliath.

Up to this point (up to I Samuel 17), David was just a little shepherd boy who just tended his father sheep, but yet it was little ole David that defeated the giant Goliath.

Up to this point (up to I Samuel 17), David was just a talented, annointed musician who could play the harp very well, but yet it was little ole David that defeated Goliath.

Up to this point (up to I Samuel 17), David was just a great songwriter who wrote most of the book of Psalms, he was the apple of God's eye, who later grew up to became a man after God's own heart. But yet it was little ole David that defeated the big bad giant named Goliath.

Now on paper from the mere look or glance at David, he looked like a person who wouldn't even hurt a fly. But yet David was no joke. Yes, he looked humble and meek, but David was tough cookie. You see one day while tending his father's sheep, a bear and a lion came and stole one of the sheep out of the flock. But David rescued the sheep from the paw of the lion and from the mouth of the bear. And when both the lion and the bear rose up to try to kill David, David killed both the lion and the bear with his bare hands. In other words, before David fought Goliath, he had been in training for the fight. God had trained him for the occasion.

So when David heard how Goliath was taunting the children of Israel's army, he became furious about it, and wanted to fight Goliath himself. Not only was David was furious about how Goliath was taunting and threatening the children of Israel, but he was really upset at the fact that the Philistines and Goliath was wrecking havoc on their home turf! If you look at 1 Samuel 17:1 it says "Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle and were gathered at Shocoah, which belongs to Judah (Israel)." This is like a visiting football team going onto somebody home field talking trash about how bad they are going to beat them. When I was in high school in 1982 at Western High School, we made a pact among ourselves that no team is going to come up on Western's field and beat us, and we backed that pact up. Nobody beat us that year at home because we were determine to protect our turf. Now notice this. That the Philistines were gathered at Shocoah, which belonged to Judah, and Judah means "Praise". And notice that the Philistines were doing everything but praising the Lord. They were mocking God, taunting the armies of God, and David was going to have none of that happening on his home turf. David was mad that someone had the audacity to show up on his home turf to talk bad about God. And we ought to be like David......we ought not let nothing come on to the house of the Lord, our home turf, to stop us from praising God. Anything that mocks God, does not line up with the Word of God, or stops up from worshipping God, we need to challenge it and defeat it in the name of the Lord!