The promises of God sent in the purpose of God by the power of God will bring down the foe.
Fought any giants lately? Giant Fear? Depression? Anger? Jealousy? Despair? The sons of Anak are prolific. We better stoop with David at the brook and select five smooth projectiles that will fly true to hit their mark. Of what do these smooth stones speak? Like the promises of God, they have lain there, polished over time, waiting for any child of faith to take them up and send them with God’s unerring power to bring the enemy down. Here are a few for us to use: Deut 33:12; 2 Sam 22:31; Ps 55:22; Prov 18:10; Isa 26:3-4; Mt 6:30; Jn 14:27; Rom 8:32; 1 Cor 10:13; 2 Cor 12:9; Eph 3:20-21; Heb 13:20-21; Jas 1:5; 1 Jn 4:17- 18. Why a handful? Goliath had four brothers; it’s always good to be prepared. As David approached, Goliath scanned the field. It seems he might have overlooked his teen-age combatant. “And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him” (1 Sam 17:42). “Am I a dog?” he spat out the words (v 43). Often, when out for a walk, I’ve feigned picking up a stone to keep distance between me and a menacing dog. And here was David, with “sticks” (v 43), as Goliath called it, or as Scripture describes, with “his staff in his hand; and…five smooth stones from the brook” (v 40). But notice carefully how David specifies the weaponry. “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you…” Let’s pause for a moment. Would we have concluded, “But I come to you with staff, and shepherd’s bag, and sling”? Listen instead to the way God’s boy concludes the inventory list. “But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied” (v 45). Ah, yes, our strong tower: “Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Ps 113:2)!