Faces of a Giant

Faces of a Giant

Life challenges can stretch people beyond their comforts and limits.   You most likely have experienced them. They come as invincible giants compared to your own perceived strength.  Sometimes you invade them and other times they ambush you. Each time they present the faces of terror and the ordinary while hiding the face of opportunity.

>> The face of terror. Goliath caused fear by his huge appearance and verbal threats. Fear removes focus from God's ability, care and faithfulness. Faith and fear cannot coexist. Whichever you allow to rule displaces the other.  Saul was so afraid and desperate that he sent an untrained and unprotected boy to fight a seasoned ruthless giant.

Fear and discouragement are the enemy’s weapons of first choice.  No wonder, there are over 350 “fear nots” in the Bible.

>> The face of the ordinary. Goliath challenged the ordinary standard and methods of warfare. He was intimidating when compared to the ordinary appeal to sight, and logic. Saul’s pitfall was trusting in carnal weapons of warfare (2 Corinthians 10:1-5). David represented innovation and the unconventional ways of faith in God.

>> The face of opportunity. David saw the opportunity behind Goliath’s terror.  Opportunities come disguised in enemy threats and other people's desperations. The enemy will not expose the face of opportunity. You have to discern it. David discerned the opportunity and made a courageous choice. Where others saw the formidable armor of Goliath David saw the uncircumcision beneath the armor. Where others saw his big physical size as daunting David saw it as an object hard to miss. Where others saw growing intensity of   resistance David saw evidence of a high priced target behind the battle lines. Where others saw forty days of torment David saw the end of the torment since forty is the number for judgment. Time for judgment had come.

The giants come to enhance your resume and profile. The giants come to expose the real giant in you. They come to also reveal the giants on your side. Whether giants work for you or against you, depends on how you view and respond to them. You can respond as an ordinary human being or a new creature in Christ.