The champion is on the inside!

King David became the champion when he defeated the Philistine champion, Goliath. What made him a champion? Well, it certainly wasn’t by acting like all the other “warriors” that were supposed to fight against Goliath. David had to see beyond what all the other warriors were seeing. They were focusing on how huge and ominous Goliath was. They heard of his track record and past accomplishments. However, David remembered God’s promises. He remembered how God had delivered him from the lion and the bear. He was a champion on the inside before he ever challenged the giant. He was larger on the inside than on the outside. People might look at you and not “see” anything significant. But if you are larger on the inside than on the outside, it doesn’t make a difference what people think. When they see you topple your “giant,” then they will realize that you are indeed a champion, and you are someone to be reckoned with!

1 Samuel 17:45-47 “Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.  This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.  Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”