The First Stone Thrown

I think we all know the story of David and Goliath. Goliath stood over nine feet tall, covered head to toe in armor weighing prob well over a hundred pounds to cover him. His spear alone prob. weighed well over fifteen pounds, with that just being in the tip. Would you want to face Goliath? At first thought do you really blame the Israelites for not wanting to fight him?Every morning and every evening for forty days he shouted to the Philistines in his big deep voice, "Hey, you guys! I dare you to find one man to fight me. If he can beat me we will become your servants, but if I win you will all become our servants." When Saul and all his men heard this they were very afraid. Three of these men were David's three oldest brothers. They were the only ones in David's family that could go fight because they were old enough.Now David's father Jesse heard about the giant and was worried for his sons. He called David out of the fields and asked him to take some food to his brothers and report back how they are doing.
So David set off to visit his brothers. As he approached them he heard Goliath shouting his challenge like he did every morning. "Isn't someone going to stand up to this man?" David asked the men in the army. "Then I will fight this giant Philistine."
David was young at this time, slim, a teenager. Standing next to Goliath, David would of been swallowed up in his shadow. Yet with great faith, David stood up and put a stone in a sling and twirled it at Goliath and Killed Him. Goliath means "to be disgracefully stripped naked"(Giant Killers) The power Goliath had was one of intimidation. The Israelites must of felt naked and stripped of their courage by Goliath.
How often does our sins, weakness, failures, and persistent "giants" in our lives keep us feeling naked and feeling disgraced. We feel vulnerable and exposed and for most that is not a place that we like. God has give a a stone to sling against our Goliath's. Our identity in Christ. Satan can accuse us all day long of what we have done, he can tempt us, he can even bring things our way like he did to Job. But the Word says that "there is no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus" Romans 8:1 . I am a child of God. I am forgiven.

I really like the last paragraph to the chapter so I am going to type it.
"Putting on that truth--the truth of who God says I am-- has helped me defeat the giants of shame and fear that once held me so captives that I did not want anyone else to even know what I have been delivered from. My, how things have changes! Now God uses my greatest failures to bring him glory and to others who are tapped in the strongholds of various giants into the freedom that is found only in Him"

Psalm 139
Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart
1O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.3You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.4Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.5You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?8If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!9If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,10even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.11If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,"12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.