I love the story of David and Goliath. I've been hearing it in one form or another since I was just a few years old. I can just picture the flannel graph now!
Reading it again today (1 Samuel 17) I'm reminded of a time when I did something harder than I ever thought I was capable of and someone distinctly told me "You've slayed a Goliath in your life today". As difficult a time as that was those words made my heart leap. It was an amazing testimony of God's power in me - giving me strength to do what would've been impossible in my own strength.
There are places in my life today that need that same, God-invested power. As David gets in the face of the champion of Gath he says "... but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty... this day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head... for the battle is the Lord's!..."
(I can hear Take 6 singing it now) :)
What a necessary reminder that the battles in my life are not mine but HIS - if I will just get out of the way and give him room to hand over to me those things that need to be slain. And there's the rub - finding my part in it. The getting out of the way or the surrendering what I need to surrender or the doing what only I can do so that my heart is soft and ready and I give the Lord a place to move and work in me.
Jesus, Help!
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