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Day 78 or March the 19th. Be yourself and trust

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in God. Our thought today comes from 1 Samuel

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chapter 17 verse 45. David said to the Philistine,

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You come against me with sword and spear and

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javelin, but I come against you in the name of

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the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel,

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whom you have defied. Now the big picture surrounding

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this verse. Exactly halfway through the book

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of 1 Samuel, God is true to his word and rejects

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Saul in favour of a young lad called David. Saul

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had been warned many times, but he failed to

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mend his ways, so God honoured his word and appointed

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a new king, who was the youngest of eight sons

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of Jesse, who lived in Bethlehem. David goes

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on to kill the giant Goliath in what must be

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one of the best known adventures in the Bible.

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It all took place not far from Jerusalem in the

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valley of Elah. Not much has changed since those

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days. In fact, the stream in the valley is still

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there and is a great source of smooth round stones.

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Now our action step for today. Samuel learns

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a fundamental quality of God when he anoints

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David, and that is that God looks on the inside

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and not the outside. He sees us as we are and

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not as how we try to get others to view us, by

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projecting a particular image which disguises

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the real you. David didn't project any false

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image as he encountered Goliath. Goliath on the

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other hand was so macho you can almost taste

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the testosterone from here David didn't exhibit

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blind faith either in fact he used a lot of wisdom

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and cunning he picked up five stones even though

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he was confident of hitting Goliath first time

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Actually, Goliath had four big friends, so David

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was planning for possible future encounters.

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He certainly trusted God, but he used common

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sense and his own expertise as well. That's what

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God expects us to do every day. Trust Him and

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do all we are able to. Don't ask God to do what

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you can do yourself. At the same time, trust

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Him to do what only He can. That's a great partnership.

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Just ask Goliath and his big friends.