As time passes life becomes harder and harder to deal with. More complex problems such as we have never seen before arise these last days. Our struggles more and more frequent are spiritual and more then just carnal; though yes we struggle with our flesh (Eph. 6:12). Diseases such as bipolar, schizophrenia and other have become more evident then ever before. Postpartum. war depression and other are ever more present today affecting us more then in past times. Our battles with the family, humanity and our very lives have increased in size dramatically; they have become giants. These giant size problems of life are very difficult to tackle; we do not know where to start the fight, how do we take down those giants? David found a giant who was fully armored yet vulnerable enough to be taken down. He knew how to kill the lion, the bear, but the giant was a bit different.
1 Samuel 17:48-49
48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground.50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
Although, a battle is a battle no matter if one is fighting a bear or a human, there are some battles that take more time to win and are more challenging. Fighting against a bear or a lion take different strategies to take either down. Fighting against a giant man is also different then fighting against an animal because humans have a higher level of intellect, and, therefore it takes a more strategic planning to win. David was an expert warrior in taking down animals, but now he had to take down a warrior like himself just double or even triple his size. And, sure enough he did with just a couple of rocks in his bag all it took was one to kill the giant. Now this was not just an immediate victory, a one time moment thing he paved the way for others to take down giants. We have giants in our lives that are different to take down then any other animals we are accustom to battle (Eph. 6:12). Our battles are spiritual, so they are different each time, but they all have some commonality; their size and source.
Like David, others have similar had similar victories with giants. They saw what David did and probably said “I could do that, if David did it I can do it too”. For example, Benaiah son of Jehoiada who was a sub general to king David who kills a lion in a pit, two mighty men and slays a giant (2 Sa 23:20-22). He became one of the greatest killer the kings could ever count on, because he learned take out a giant from David. When David stood up to Goliath and slew him with just one stone someone got inspired learned that anyone can do this. Benaiah learned this lesson and so did his older brother. In 1 Chronicles 20:6-7 we find Jonathan son of Shimea David’s brother fighting against a huge man. This Jonathan David’s third oldest brother was first hand witness of David’s trust in the Lord and seal for God’s kingdom (1Sam. 17:45). He saw how David ran without fear against the giant and with a single stone killed him.