I have hidden Thy word in my heart.
(Picture by Lisa R)

1 Samuel 17. “Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands'” (Verses 45-47). Then everyone will know that the Lord does not save with swords and spears, but the battle belongs to God. The BATTLE is God’s. David understood that, Israel did not. David knew that size and strength meant nothing if God was the fighter of the battle. David didn’t stand before Goliath in his own strength, no he stood before him in the strength of GOD. Our lives are filled with Goliaths, problems and situations that threaten to tear us apart. Looking at them we like Israel tremble and worry, believing that will will never be victorious. Here’s the cool thing about David, he never saw Goliath. Right now you’re thinking, that doesn’t make sense. Let me say it in another way, David never saw the problem… He only saw the solution. Past experiences told him, God was the answer. So David never saw Goliath, he only saw GOD. We need to do likewise. Don’t see the Goliath, see the LORD.