Have You Considered the Stone?

When you hear the story of David and Goliath, the first thing that comes to mind is David defeating the giant Goliath with a sling.  It is a great story of strength and courage.  David defeats the giant that no one else in the great army of Israel would even attempt to confront.  That is what most people think of when they hear or read this story.

I have a different take on this story.  Have you considered the stone?  As David made his way down to confront Goliath, he stopped at a stream and chose five smooth stones.  One of those smooth stones he would use to kill the giant.  I ask myself why a smooth stone?  Well a smooth stone would fly straight and true when a rough rock would not.  Since the stone was smooth it would more likely hit it's target than a rough rock.

I also ask myself how did that stone get that way?  Smooth I mean?  Well the water rushing over it in the stream along with the sand and the wind and other elements in the environment would knock off the rough edges of what started out as a rock and whittle it down into a smooth stone.  The constant battering of the water and elements would round out the rough edges and make it into the smooth stone that David used to kill Goliath.

This reminds me of me.  When I was in sin I was like that rough rock.  I had the sharp edges and rough cracks which represent the sin in my life.  When I received Christ as my personal Savior, He began to knock of the sharp edges and smooth out the cracks in my life and began to make me into a smooth stone that He could use to kill giants in other people's lives.

Here's something else to consider.  That smooth stone not only killed the giant, it also changed history.  If David had not killed Goliath, the blood line of Jesus Christ would have ended right there for surely Goliath would have killed David.  If the stone had not been in that stream at that moment in time, there may not have been a Jesus Christ.  But God knew when and where this event would take place in history.  He made sure that that stone was there in that stream when David needed it.

You know He does the same with us.  He knows who needs us and when they need us.  He puts us in that particular stream in someone's life so that we, through Him, can kill the giant in that person's life.  You know when God begins to smooth out our rough edges, it can hurt.  But He uses trials and tribulations in our lives to smooth us out so that we can be giant killers.

Again, I ask.  Have you considered the stone?