SLAYING THE GIANTS IN LIFE

WITNESS

9-9-13

SLAYING THE GIANTS IN YOUR LIFE

We ALL have giants

In our life

GIANTS or crosses if your prefer

GIANTS standing in the way

Of our worship

Crosses-something

Standing in between

Our love of God and our love of others

Standing in the way

Of our desire

To live a happy successful life

In the 17^th chapter of 1 Samuel

The author literally

Tells us the story

Of a young man-a boy perhaps

Stepping forward

And slaying the GIANT for Israel

A Philistine giant named Goliath

Calls out to the Israelites,

“Why do you come out

And line up for battle

Am I not a Philistine

And are you not

Servants of Saul

Choose a man

And have him come down to me

If he is able

To fight

And kill me

We will become your subjects

But if I overcome him and kill him

You will become our subjects and serve us”                                               1 Samuel 17:8-9

My friends

The giants of our life

Are calling us out

The giant of a chronic illness

The giant of financial problems

The giant of family relationships

Maybe even the giant

Of an addiction or two

David-the youngest of eight sons

Steps forward for the Israelites

And wins the fight

With a slingshot of all things

No one believed in the boy David

Least of all King Saul

But David said,

“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

And the Lord did

Deliver David

And he will deliver us

If we unite our lives with his

David went on

To become Israel’s greatest king

And went on

To write many of the psalms

A cross-our crosses

Are the GIANTS of our life

And by UNITING our lives with Christ

That is the pathway to our FREEDOM

“If anyone

Would come after me

He must deny himself

And take up his cross daily

And follow me”                                                                              Luke 9:23

Unite your life with Christ

Unite the problems of your life with Jesus

And your burdens will become LIGHTER

“For whoever wants to save his life

Will lose it

And whoever loses his life for me

Will save it”                                                                                 Luke 9:24

My friends

The way down

Is the way home

If the giants of your life

Are weighing you down

Let God and Christ

Help you back up

And like David and the Israelites

We will live to RISE AGAIN

Robert P. Wallman

7-18-12

Ps         WITNESS         9-9-13