I was reading Deuteronomy 9 today, and I was struck by Deuteronomy 9:1-3. Here we have God telling His people that they are going to head into the promised land and they are going to be faced with a people great and tall… giants. Now, I don’t know about you, but when I think of a giant, I think of Fezzig from The Princess Bride. He’s this huge, hulking man, who incidentally is known far and wide for his fighting prowess. So, when I read Deu 9, I think of a land filled with a whole bunch of Fezzigs.
The Israelites aren’t stupid, matter of fact, they have a saying, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?” Well, the answer is simple, the Lord, because no one can stand before the Lord our God! Long intro for pointing out that what I was struck by today is that there are a lot of giants in the Bible. Of course, the one we think of most often is David and Goliath. There we saw a short little guy against the greatest warrior that happened to be a giant, and what happened? God showed that He can take the most unlikely of people and do incredible things, including defeating giants with one stone. Why giants? I think it’s because when Goliath is on the ground dead, no one is sitting around saying, wow, that David is sure some warrior. Instead, when David says, my strength is the Lord of Hosts, people look and see that there is the reason why the giant was defeated.
What are the giants in your life? I think God still likes to take unlikely heroes and defeat giants. And I’m talking both inward giants and outward giants. I believe that He is using some friends of mine to defeat the giant of unsafe drinking water. The problem is this huge hulking problem, but with folks like them, and people like you buying filters and supporting them, that giant will be defeated.
We all have inward giants, and we need to know that those giants will be defeated. Sometimes it happens with a single stone, and the giant is gone. We need to make sure that He receives the glory for that, and sometimes the giant is defeated through a long campaign, but defeated he will be. Make sure that God receives the glory for that too.
Really when you boil it down, Christ defeated all of our giants (sin) on the cross, once for all time. So, if you have doubts, know that the giants in your life have already been defeated! They are just fighting a rearguard action, but they have lost the battle! Let us together rejoice in the victory we have in Christ!
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