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| by Ted Henninger from lds.org |
Well, if you're me, you might hide in your room crying, hoping that somehow Goliath will just decide to go away, or that the King will send someone else out there to get rid of Goliath. I might hope that I'm not the David in this story because Goliath is scary!
And what does Goliath look like? Well, to me this week he was just hurt, or hurting children. He was my own lack of confidence, and fatigue. Goliath was fear, and my lack of faith in myself. God would answer my prayers, but would I hear Him? And I sympathized with the army of Israel who listened to Goliath for 40 days, and were afraid, and didn't do anything.
Still, David did not fight Goliath alone. He said himself, "I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts" and he knew that the Lord would deliver Goliath into his hand. And he was right. With the help of the Lord David conquered the much bigger and more experienced Goliath, and with the help of the Lord, we too can defeat our own big, seemingly un-defeatable Goliaths.
*I wrote this over a year ago and found it in my drafts. Yay for past writing when I am not coming up with other things to say!
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