Are you David or Are you Goliath?
What we can learn from this historical event.
Sometimes you’re David and sometimes you’re Goliath.
From the famous Old Testament story where David is up against a giant named Goliath in a fight. David kept sheep for a living, and didn’t have any military experience. But he won the match against Goliath, by slingshoting a rock dead in the center of his opponent’s head.
What we all no doubtly wanted to be, is a David. We’ve never heard of anyone who praises Goliath and putting him in the spotlight. That is because Goliath lost, when he could have easily won. He is even given a sort of mockingly shame, because he was suppose to win. Not only did he just lose, he lost disappointingly. But why is that? David is the anointed one by the Lord; Samual stopped by his field where he shepherded. David is not any ordinary individual. Receiving the anointing is like the president of the United States endorses you to be the next president. It is a big deal. I can talk about how expected it is for David to win the fight against him, but that’s a whole other point.
I am asking you, who are the Goliaths in life? God used Goliath, David’s enemy to secure him favor in front of the Israelites and King Saul. We can say that without Goliath, David would be a nobody. But you say I thought he is anointed, wouldn’t he come to greatness anyway? Yes, but God sometimes will use your enemy to catapult you where you are suppose to end up in. Don’t we all want to be David, or better yet, use David as a reminder and projecting that we, in fact are going through what David is going through — at a disadvantage, but will triumph eventually. Or so we thought. But what if you really are Goliath in this situation. What if you’re set up to eventually lose? You say, no, that’s impossible. But think about every time that you lost or failed. Were you David, or were you Goliath? Did you lost because you underestimated the situation, the opponent, or what? Most times we lose or fail, not because the opponent or adversarial situation is too strong, it is usually because we are underestimating whatever we’re up against. We can learn much from Goliath. Sometimes, amazingly, we could be someone’s Goliath, catapulting another person to a higher level, but for ourselves, we are left with loss. But, that is okay; that is just the way life is suppose to be. “Sometimes you’re the train, sometimes you’re the track, all we can do is keep chugging along”. All I’m saying is, don’t be afraid to admit that the failure resulted from underestimating the situation, and it’s okay that we’re not David all the time. The Bible says all things are working for your good.
