Daily Reading
Daily Verse
We saw the Nephilim there
(the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim).
We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes,
and we looked the same to them."
Numbers 13:33
Daily Thought
David had three chances to figure out he was too small to fight Goliath the Philistine.
First King Saul told him, "You can't fight Goliath. You're only a boy."
Then David put on the armor, but it didn't fit. Everyone knows if the armor's too big, the battle's too big.
Finally, the big Philistine himself laughed, "Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?"
A few hundred years before David, the Israelites had a similar problem. Someone thought they were too small.
It wasn't the Nephilim that thought the Israelites looked like grasshoppers.
It wasn't the Amalekites that thought the Israelites looked like grasshoppers.
It wasn't the Hittites that thought the Israelites looked like grasshoppers.
It wasn't the Jebusites that thought the Israelites looked like grasshoppers.
It wasn't the Amorites that thought the Israelites looked like grasshoppers.
It wasn't the Canaanites that thought the Israelites looked like grasshoppers.
It was the Israelites that thought the Israelites looked like grasshoppers.
It never occurred to David to measure himself.
He measured Goliath. He measured God.
"You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel."
So, David killed Goliath with a slingshot. Then he cut off his head.
To God's Glory,
Dave
Daily Prayer
Awesome God, You reign from heaven above with wisdom, power, and love. You are the Almighty, the Everlasting, our Stronghold, our Shelter, our Fortress in time of trouble. You are our Savior.
Our God is an awesome God. May we never rely on our own strength; but may we never forget Your strength. We shall always place our trust in it, in You. If our God is for us, who can be against us?
Amen
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