What if you weren’t David

Many times, we read the Bible, and we take the story of David and Goliath and automatically assume that we’re David.

I can’t tell you how often you’re wrong, but I can tell you that you’ve been wrong an often amount of times in thinking that is all God was trying to speak to us in that story. God is bigger than our smaller thoughts, and many times in a picture to where we have in mind the center, which any designer knows is where our focus is made to go to, that David is at the center, or is he? The center is Jesus, and let me go into the New Testament and bring up a verse to just show you where I’m going with this.

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:2–4 ESV)

Then we go back a little more in time, and we see another instance to were a child was underestimated due to their size, and age.

Remember the time that David was underestimated due to his size, age and lack of experience. These were the three things that Saul called out when we saw David. How many times instead of having a David moment in our lives do we instead become like Saul and instead fall victim to what we see and ignore the unseen. When we look at the Israelite’s history, their whole history has been based on faith, for God has brought them out of crisis and calamities worse than this one. So many times, the people in our lives that we see as sometimes invaluable, are often going to set up to be the cornerstone for God’s great church.

We need to stop having Saul moments and more have Paul moments. For instead accusing the young to be unequipped, let us see what Paul tells Timothy in a letter.

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12 NIV)