GOD IS BIGGER

Giles, a South African game ranger, described the strange scene: two honey badgers were battling six lions! The two honey badgers refused to back down from the fierce predators, who were ten times bigger. The lions thought the kill would be simple, but Giles’ video shows the badgers walking away with something like a swagger.

David and Goliath were an even more unlikely story. Young, inexperienced David confronted the fierce Philistine giant Goliath. Towering above his young opponent, Goliath had brutal strength and weaponry—bronze armour and a lethal, razor-edged javelin (1 SAMUEL 17:5-6). David, a shepherd boy, carried only a slingshot when he arrived at the battlefield with bread and cheese for his brothers (VV.17-18).

Goliath challenged Israel to fight him, but King Saul and “all the Israelites were . . . terrified” (V.11). Imagine the shock when David stepped into the scene. What gave him the bravery none of Israel’s hardened warriors could find? For everyone else, Goliath took up their vision. David, however, saw God: “The Lord will deliver [Goliath] into my hands” (V.46). While everyone else believed Goliath controlled the story, David knew God was the real Author. And, with a single stone to the giant’s forehead, David’s trust proved true.

We’re tempted to believe that our ‘Goliaths’ (our troubles) direct the story. God is bigger, every time. He alone tells the story of our lives.

Thinking it over . . .

What ‘giants’ threaten to take over your story today?
How does God’s reality, the fact that He’s bigger, transform your view?