Nov 28, 2022
Do what you are suited to rather than wear an ill-fitting suit
So the people were up against it. Their enemy seemed to have the upper hand. The King called for the greatest warriors in his kingdom, but none seemed to succeed.
A boy came along with lunch for his brothers. He wondered what was going on and why the King looked so pale. His brothers told him that it seemed their enemy would defeat them.
David, the boy, said I will take on their leader. “Hush,” they told him, you are a mere boy. “I may be a mere boy but my God is big!” David persisted until the news came to the King, “There is a boy who says that his God can take down the giant.”
The King becoming ever more despondent eventually asked that the boy be brought to him. David seemed bold in his God and humble in himself. There was much to-ing and fro-ing until the King said “Ok put him in armour and see what happens.”
David said he didn't need armour but the King could not risk putting the boy out without any protection. The thing was he was drowned in the armour. David said, “This isn't going to work I can’t do anything in this armour”.
Finally, the King allowed him to do what he felt comfortable with. Boy, he was but he was a shepherd boy. He had to learn to survive with his sheep and he had taken on lions and bears. His most faithful weapon was a lowly catapult. Lowly maybe but it had saved him and the sheep many times.
The people cringed as David went to the brook to get some stones. He took five and went to meet the giant. The giant like the King was surprised to see a boy before him. It was perhaps in that surprise that David catapulted a stone towards him and to the astonishment of all the giant fell dead.
There is a principle here that we are to do what we are to do with what we have. People may say, “It has to be done this way or that” but this story is an affirmation of what you know and what you know works.
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