Week 14   Day 3

Goliath and David are a study in contrasts

            complete opposites

            coming together once in a lifetime

Did this situation look ridiculous?

            you bet it did

David showed no fear

           and appeared very foolish

"The battle is the Lord's"

            is what David claimed

The words came out of his mouth

            but did he believe them in his heart?

From David's actions, we must conclude

            he was seeing something different

            than what others saw

David armed himself

with five smooth stones

           a shepherd's bag

           a sling

           many years practice

           and the power of the Lord

We marvel at
             David's courage

                           confidence

                           faith

as he put himself
            on the line

            in the hands of God.

                                    GOLIATH'S DEMISE
   Five smooth stones, a shepherd's bag, and a sling.
                                           I Samuel 17

    4A champion went out from the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a
span (over 9 feet tall).  5He had a bronze helmet and a coat
of armor.  6He had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze
javelin between his shoulders.  7The staff of his spear was
like a weaver's beam, his iron spearhead weighed six hundred
shekels (125 pounds); and a shield-bearer went before him. 
    8Goliath cried out, "Why have you come out to line up for
battle?   Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down
to me.  9 If he is able to kill me, we will be your servants.  But
if I kill him, you shall be our servants."  11Saul and all Israel
heard these words, and they were greatly afraid.

    32David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of
him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."  33Saul
said to David, "You are not able; you are a youth, and he is a
man of war."  34But David said, "Your servant used to keep
his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took
a lamb, 35 I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the
lamb from its mouth.  36Your servant has killed both lion and
bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, 
because he has defied the armies of the living God.  37The
Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the bear,
will deliver me from this Philistine." 
    Saul said to David, "Go, and the Lord be with you!"   
40David took his staff; he chose five smooth stones from the
brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag, and his sling was
in his hand.  He drew near to the Philistine.  42When Goliath
looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was
only a youth.  43So the Philistine said, "Am  I a dog, that you
come to me with sticks?  I will give your flesh to the birds of
the air and the beasts of the field!"             

    45David said, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and

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.  47The
Lord does not save with sword and spear; the battle is the
Lord's, and He will give you into our hands."

    48When Goliath arose and came near, David hurried and
ran to meet him.  49David took out a stone; slung it and struck
the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his
forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.  
             _{This Bible passage was condensed from the NKJV}

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