For forty days a nine-foot champion has thundered his challenge, and Israel's army has practiced sprinting the other way. Then a shepherd boy arrives with bread and cheese and asks the question nobody else was asking: who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

You come against me with sword and spear, David tells Goliath, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty. Read today's giant story like it is about your giants. It is.

Everyone in the valley saw the same giant; only David saw him next to God, which made Goliath the smallest thing on the field. His courage was not temperament but theology plus memory: the LORD who delivered from lion and bear will deliver again. Faith does math with God included, and runs toward what others run from.

Notice also whose armor he refused. Your battles will not be won in someone else's gear, their gifting, their methods, their approval, but with the tested history between you and God and five smooth stones of ordinary obedience. Name the taunting thing in your valley, and go at it today in the name of the LORD Almighty.