Giant Delivery

"And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD."
Psalm 27:6

Triumph, victory, that feeling of having overcome an difficult obstacle - these are feelings and opportunities that we are blessed with every now and then. And they are wonderful empowering moments in any ones life. The only problem is that getting to that feeling, means first undergoing adversity, and difficulty while facing hopeless looking odds. These types of situations we are more familiar with...yes?

I mean, how often do the circumstances of life stack up against you? A mountain of debt, a relationship that looks beyond repair, a fearful disease, the hurt of losing a dear loved one - I could go on, but you get the idea. Everyone of us faces our own unique giant enemies, and at times we feel consumed by them.

David, who wrote this Psalm, knew these giant enemies all too well. Sometimes we forget that David the poet and songster King began his biblical career as a boy slayer of Giants. David literally was faced with a mountain of an enemy in the form of Goliath, that frankly, he had no chance of overcoming. Yet...armed with only a sling, a stone, and faith in a God who does move mountains, who does crush giant enemies, and who is larger and greater than all our obstacles - overcome he did.

Listen to David's brash words to his giant enemy. "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel that you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel...for the battle is the LORD's." I love it. David's confidence and strength to overcome his giant enemy came not in his own strength or might or chance...but from the hand of the LORD. It was really His battle. God overcome David's enemy on His behalf.

The same is true for us. Do you really believe that there is any obstacle or giant enemy facing you that God cannot overcome, slay, and deliver you from? Put your faith in Him and allow Him to fight your battle for you. He will give you triumph, victory, and that great feeling of overcoming an immense obstacle. He can, because He is almighty...He wants to because He is a faithful Father.

And when He does, please, like David, do not chalk it up to coincidence, or your own self actualization - give thanks and praise to God. Worship Him with all you've got. He is your deliverer.

Be God's, Scott