Different Eyes

When David came to the front lines where the giant, Goliath, had kept the armies of Israel cowering in fear, he looked with different eyes than the others.  Unlike the armies amassed there or the people of Israel at edge of the Promised Land in the past, David looked at the giant as a defeated foe.  David understood that he and the armies of Israel were in covenant relationship with the living God. David had experienced the victorious power of this God at work on his behalf and through him in the sheepfolds.  When he encountered this enemy on the battle field, David looked unto His God as he had at times in the past and took the down the giant that had kept the armies of Israel paralyzed for way too long.  There are giants that have kept us from victory and from moving on for too long.  We need eyes to see as God sees and faith in our hearts to believe God is true to His Word.  We are victorious warriors needing to enforce the victory of our Lord so that people will know the true and living God.

1 Samuel 17:23, 24, 26, 45-47 And as he (David) talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. ²⁴ And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. ^{............26} And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?...... Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. ⁴⁶ This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. ⁴⁷ And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands.