Most folks are so familiar with the story of David and Goliath that we’ve become a wee bit passé about the balls this kid had to confront the Philistine’s blathering giant. Think about it: David hears the champion of Gath spew his sputum about God just one time, and he said, “Oh, hell no! Not on my watch!” And with that, David sprang into action to defend God’s name while the Shriveled Testicle Brigade just stood on the rim of Elah’s Valley and chewed their fingernails and scratched their butt in fear.

Young squire … one day you’re going to face a “giant.” You may face multiple giants throughout your life. That is, of course, if you’re blessed. “How would confronting multiple giants in this thing I call a life equate a blessing?” queries the not-so-sharp teen.

Well, Dinky, here’s how the threatening presence of an epic enemy is actually a good thing in your life: David’s promotion was in direct proportion to the size and lethality of his enemy. In other words, we wouldn’t know squat about David if he’d kicked some nerdy geek’s ass. We wouldn’t know anything about David if he killed a lemur, unless of course PETA got ahold of that nugget. And there’d be zero press about the shepherd from Bethlehem if all he did was play video games in his gay pajamas on his dad’s back forty.

Check it out: God framed David, for time immemorial, in history’s Holy Ghost klieg lights, as a protagonist of faith and heroism by foreordaining David’s crappy collision with Goliath, which could’ve ended in David’s death. When David was dealt this “bad hand” by Providence, he didn’t whine about it. He didn’t flee in the opposite direction. He didn’t get on YouTube and start caterwauling like a stuck pig. Oh, hizzle to the nizzay! David, dear young person, ran to the battle.

I wonder what you would’ve done if you were in the same crap-sling David was in? Would you run to the war or from it? Would you flee back to mommy? Would you retreat to the warm, wet womb of Wussville, huh? What, pray tell, would thou doest?

*From my forthcoming book, Biblical Badasses: The Teens. Summer ‘26.

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