13/03/2026
The story moves.
David has been anointed.
The Spirit of God has come upon him. And then, as if God wants to demonstrate immediately what He just deposited in this young man, a giant shows up.
Goliath.
Nine feet tall.
Armoured from head to foot.
A professional soldier who has been training for war since before David was born.
He stands in the valley every morning and every evening, taunting the army of Israel, and the entire army, including David's older brothers, is paralysed with fear.
David arrives at the battlefield to deliver food to his brothers. He hears Goliath. And he asks a question that reveals everything about who he is:
"Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
Notice: David does not ask how big he is. He does not ask how long he has been threatening the army. He asks about the giant's relationship with God.
Because in David's mind, the most important fact about Goliath is not his size. It is his spiritual position.
David volunteers to fight him. And the response from the people around him is immediate and familiar:
You are disqualified.
His brother Eliab, the one who looked like a king, the one Samuel almost anointed, turns on David and says: Why did you come down here? I know your pride and the evil of your heart. You came just to watch the battle.
King Saul says: You cannot fight this man. You are just a youth, and he has been a warrior from his youth.
Everyone around David has a reason why he is the wrong person for this moment. Too young. Too inexperienced. Wrong background. Wrong size. Wrong pedigree.
Does that sound familiar?
How many voices in your life have given you a carefully reasoned explanation for why you are the wrong person for what God placed in your heart?
But David does not argue with the voices. He does not try to prove himself to the doubters. He simply goes back to his testimony.
He tells Saul: I killed a lion. I killed a bear. God delivered me from both. This Philistine will be no different, because he has defied the army of the living God.
David's confidence was not in his own ability. It was in the track record of a God who had already shown up for him.