One of the most unforgettable stories in the Bible is the one about David and Goliath. David was just a boy, too young to go and join the army like his brothers. David was determined to get into the fight when he heard Goliath cursing God. He went to the king and the king tried to arm him for battle, but David refused. He would use that tools that had taken care of him in the past – a sling and a rock. David was nimble, free to move, slung a stone and Goliath fell to the ground so David could cut his head off and win the battle. The enemies fled but the story remains. 

 There will always be people like Goliath, giants who will threaten the peace, who by their mere massiveness hold the world in their grip of fear.  These “giants” may have name changes, and personalities differences, but we all know some of them and can easily identify each. We will have to face them or they will destroy us from within or outside. It may be an addiction or just a simple weakness, but we see their devastation all around us. 

 That giant could simply be called the great conflict of good and evil. In the great issues of life, it seldom happens that all the good is on one side and all the evil on the other. The good is almost always tinctured with evil, and the evil is seldom, if ever, entirely devoid of potential good. None of us have always been right, are not always right, but we trust we are on the rick track and come to the right place at the right time. But before we get to where we are headed, there will be a battle. 

 Giants will always present themselves in different forms. Some will be judged by their weight and height, others by their intellect and spirit. David won his battle not with physical strength but with his spiritual power.  

 It seems to me that America try to wear the armor of our opponent. We are being tempted from every side to match out might against his, pound for pound, bomb for bomb, and so outmaneuver him at his own game. Competition is a good and legitimate thing, but none of the really great things in life have ever been accomplished by people who were doing it from the sheer ambition to get there first. 

 Let us get smart – the old weapons of yesterday are obsolete. Everyone has big bombs! If we are going to win any battles, it must be with two things: intelligence and faith. We must stop challenging our enemies with their types of weapons and seek to develop skills that are different, maybe not yet found. Try something non-conventional, like befriending or some other novel ideal. And what would happen if we would seek the will of God before we attempt to get even with another. What if we reached for the things that shape our character and believe that loyalties are more important than mastery? 

 In the world that we know today, we are the giants. What kind of giant will we be? Shall we be the old-fashioned, traditional giant, putting all our trust in our weight, size and money? Or shall we be a new kind of giant who realizes that the victor will be the one who has the intelligence of God and the faith in God? I think we will determine if we have a history of David or Goliath!