DAVID & GOLIATH

 

DAVID & GOLIATH

1Samuel chapter 17

Many people, Christian or not, know the story of David and Goliath. (If not, then please read 1Sam.17:1-58) Some know it well enough to recount it verbally from memory.

However, like the Book of Job it is easy to read or teach the narrative but not see or impart the central point, it being revealed in young David’s brief declarative question “Is there not a cause?”

And what was this cause that permeated David’s life and influences us unto this day and will do so beyond? David was a man after the heart of God. (1Sam.13:14; Acts 13:22)

Exactly how central is this cause to our daily life? Does the Word guide us in the events of our days? Or do we allow the events to lead us to and fro apart from Biblical cause?

Ephesians 4:1-16 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. 

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