We are often confronted with threats in life. These could be threats against our health, family, or business. It could also be designed to stall our advance towards what God has promised. These threats could be real or imagined. The one reported by the spies about the Promised Land was imagined. They allowed what they saw to override what God told them. It was a fact that there were giants in the land. God told them that much. Neither the spies nor those who believed their negative report made it to the land.

Threats hardly disappear on their own, you must learn to confront them. Your weapon is the promised presence of God in all your ways.

The children of Israel under Saul faced a different kind of threat – it was real. Goliath of Gath stood as the champion on the side of the Philistines, but no one could stand for Israel. The men of Israel were already in fear as they described him to David. Somehow, the youngster found a way to deal with the threat posed by the Philistine giant. I believe the revelation of God as his Shepherd came to the rescue. While the men were crippled by fear, perhaps he was chanting the shepherd’s psalm. He saw the rod of the Lord guarding him out of the shadow of death into a stable land. The men saw Goliath only, but David enjoyed the extra view -he saw God who is rightly described as the Man of war. Propelled by the revelation of the God that keeps covenant, he launched an attack against Goliath and delivered Israel from a crushing defeat. Threats hardly disappear on their own, you must learn to confront them. Your weapon is the promised presence of God in all your ways.