GOLIATH'S SWORD
Today's reading: 1 Samuel 21-25

I'm sure you remember the account of David and Goliath. I'm almost positive you recall how it was one small shepherd boy (and God) against a giant. I'm going out on a limb here and believing you might have even sang songs as a child about David's sling and five little stones.

But did you know this...

"David asked Ahimelech, Do you have a spear or a sword? The king's business was so urgent that I didn't even have time to grab a weapon! I only have the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, the priest replied. It is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. Take that if you want it, for there is nothing else here. There is nothing like it! David replied, Give it to me." 1 Samuel 21:8-9 NLT

Did you know David had the opportunity to re-use the giant's sword? To take it in his hands once again? To use for good what had been intended for evil?

Maybe you're being given the same opportunity.

Quite possibly you are at a place in your Christian walk where what satan hung over your head at one point, is something that you are being able to use for God now.

Your testimony, perhaps. Your past. Wrong choices you have made, but have repented of--and turned away from.

There's a very good chance that what kept you embarrassed, ashamed and afraid to share is exactly what God is allowing you to use in reaching another soul for Him.

Maybe you are encouraging another. Maybe you are able to provide insight or advice no one else in your church can give. Maybe you can console someone at a deeper level because you have walked in the very same shoes, or carried the exact same sword.

Maybe you're being enabled, by your Heavenly Father, to pick up Goliath's sword and use it to serve Him!