The Battle Is the LORD’s
The following blog post is by Family Council staff member Deborah Beuerman.
David was a young boy whose task it was to tend his father’s sheep. His older brothers usually were in the field with him, but they had been called to fight the war with the Philistines. The word from the battle front was that things were not going well for King Saul’s army. The enemy had a secret weapon—a giant man—who intimidated and daily challenged his opponents to send one man to fight him. The Israelites trembled in fear and no man would step forward to what they all assumed to be death.
Jesse was concerned about his sons and sent David to take them food and find out how they were faring. David was there to hear the daily taunting from the giant, Goliath, and was amazed saying, “who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” David went to Saul and volunteered to fight Goliath. He took his staff and put five smooth stones in his shepherd’s pouch and went out toward Goliath with his sling shot in his hand.
Earlier this week