God Is Bigger Than Your Goliath!

God Is Bigger Than Your Goliath!“The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” 1 Samuel 17:37 NIVThe story of Goliath in 1 Samuel 17 gives us a picture of what the devil is doing to many of God’s people today. The more the armies of the Israelites stood in fear watching Goliath throw his empty threats and challenges around, the bigger he seemed to grow in their eyes. How easily they underrated the power of the great God who already saw them through many wars. Today many of God’s children are still living like these faithless Israelites. They tend to focus their attention on their problems rather than looking up to the all-powerful God who can do all things. What about you? Is your entire life governed by sickness? Are you sunk in financial difficulty? Is your marriage childless? Is your marriage on a sick bed? Is your life filled with uncertainty? I want you to see these problems as nothing more than empty threats from the devil. Don’t look at the size of your problems, look up to the God who is bigger than all your problems. He is willing, ready and able to help you overcome your difficulties and fill your whole life with peace and joy. But not until you make Him the object of your focus. The Bible says that you should “cast all your anxiety on Jesus because He cares for you” (1 Pet. 5:7). Don’t let yourself get swallowed up by your problems. Take the bold step of faith that David took and stand up against the devil: “Resist the devil and he will flee from you” (Jas. 4:7). Don’t panic when the devil threatens. Instead, call heaven and God will always be there to pick up the phone: “Call to Me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know” (Jer. 33:3). Take God at His word: “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?” (Num. 23:19). Every child of God has been empowered from above to put the devil right where he belongs. You have no business fearing your Goliaths the way the Israelites feared him: “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 Jn. 4:4). “Take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one” (Eph. 6:16). Be like David. Do away with Goliath and get on with the victorious life! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Simon Amos Dakop is a degree candidate for the higher national diploma in laboratory technology in the Federal PolyTechnic College in Bauchi, Nigeria.