The Lord doesn’t just thrust David into a battle. He brings a time of preparation first, circumstances and encounters that build his confidence in God. David learns something about the Lord before He arranges travel plans down into a valley to confront the bristling enemy.
This is what David learned: “This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD'S and He will give you into our hands.”
David’s confidence was not in his own ability to do exploits, or in any wisdom, strength or “confidence in the flesh.” What he really needed to know to make a public display of Goliath, he learned in the wilderness, in isolation, in unglamourous matters of tending lambs, where no one could see or testify how terrific he was, or even how awesome the Lord was through him.
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This is Joni. I think the Lord was truly enough for David in his "honest with his emotions" moment. He was a student of the emotions of God. Glad to see you writing here.
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