Take a Swing at Your Giant

The battle is the Lord’s. (1 Samuel 17:47 NKJV)

David . . . runs toward the army to meet Goliath (1 Samuel 17:48). Goliath throws back his head in laughter, just enough to shift his helmet and expose a square inch of forehead flesh. David spots the target and seizes the moment. The sound of the swirling sling is the only sound in the valley. Ssshhhww. Ssshhhww. Ssshhhww. The stone torpedoes through the air and into the skull; Goliath’s eyes cross and legs buckle. He crumples to the ground and dies. David runs over and yanks Goliath’s sword from its sheath, shish kebabs the Philistine, and cuts off his head.

You might say that David knew how to get a head of his giant.

When was the last time you did the same? How long since you ran toward your challenge? We tend to retreat, duck behind a desk of work, or crawl into a nightclub of distraction or a bed of forbidden love. For a moment, a day, or a year, we feel safe, insulated, anesthetized, but then the work runs out, the liquor wears off, or the lover leaves, and we hear Goliath again. Booming. Bombastic.

Try a different tack. Rush your giant with a God-saturated soul. Giant of divorce, you aren’t entering my home! Giant of anxiety? It may take a lifetime, but you won’t conquer me. Giant of worry, fear, doubt ... you’re going down. How long since you loaded your sling and took a swing at your giant?

There are days we feel surrounded by giants. Insecurities and doubts and worries flood our minds and leave us shaking. But no giant is a match for our God. When our ears ring with the bellows of giants, take a swing at them by remembering this:

I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. (Psalm 34:4)

God’s Promise to Me: God is greater than any giant in my life. Nothing and no one can defeat Him. Because He fights for me, I can live free.