Every day, we face challenges that overwhelm us. Perhaps you
have arrived at that place again where you always hit a wall. People might have
told you what you are trying to do is impossible, they have given you a list of
persons who tried and failed and perhaps have shown you their credentials and
the credentials of the challenges but now you’ve found yourself before the
challenge. It’s your turn to fight; will you quit or dare the impossible?
What are those long standing issues in your company, family,
school or community than has seemed insurmountable? You are the one it has been
waiting for. That’s if you will dare to take it on.
That challenge will continue to be a threat to everyone
including you if no one challenges it. Someone will have to stand up to it or
remain suppressed under it.
The philistines in 1 Samuel 12 had arrived on the grounds of
Israel to challenge them. They had often troubled the Israelites with their
giants who were renowned warriors and had many years of experience fighting.
One of those giants was Goliath and He came to threaten the Israelites.
Goliath’s size dwarfed Saul who was the tallest man in Israel.
Everything about him was in gigantic proportions. His presence sent fear around
the camp of the Israelites, no one Israeli soldier dared try to challenge him
not even the king Saul.
In search of a challenger against this tyrant, Saul even
promised to give his daughter as wife to any man who would dare the giant but
the bait wasn’t big enough to entice anyone to put his head down against the
giant.
Many people, families, companies have giant sized challenges
and issues and are looking for people to arrive with solutions. Everyone’s
counting the cost, the price is enticing but the risk is high.
You are around the challenge because you are supposed to be
the man for the hour. You are supposed to be the little David who though not
huge in size and not experienced has enough guts to dare. You are the person to
cage the challenge.
David arrived by chance to the camp of the Israelites. He
had been sent on an errand by his father to give his brothers food in the
battle line. He wasn’t considered qualified to stand in the battle field but he
had guts that those who qualified didn’t.
Those who do impossible things are not those who have
strength or are well educated for the task. No! The ability to do the
impossible lay with men who are courageous in spite of perceived inadequacies.
See your challenge from a different perspective away from
how others see. It begins from what you see. When others see impossible, remove
the “im” and show them there is possible right in the impossible. David saw and
declared his own perspective. He said in I Samuel 17:32 “let no man’s heart
fail”. That’s wisdom.
God’s wisdom says, life and death is in the power of the
tongue, speak life so that you will have life. What you say is the first
expression of the possibilities you carry. David said in 1 Samuel 17:45 “you
come to me with a sword, a spear and a javelin but I come to you in the name of
the Lord of Host whom you have defied. It does not matter what has been said
about your challenge, have your own say.
Who do you trust to do the impossible? Mountains don’t come
down but by the hands of God. David acknowledged God’s capacity to turn the
tides. It’s not going to be by your strength but by the hand of God, take the
challenge to Him.
It’s easy to think all the ways we can to help ourselves but
that’s no wisdom. Wisdom is trusting God entirely with your little capacity.
You are not going to put your capacity above God but under Him.
Saul offered David his weapons but David couldn’t use them.
Why didn’t Saul fight Goliath since he had all the needed weapons? The reality
is that it is not what we know or have that makes us strong against our challenges,
it is what we don’t have which makes us run to God.
What you need to overcome the challenge is already available
with you. Look within and trust God with what you have. David had a sling and
he picked some stones that were enough to get Goliath down. God used the sling
and the stones when it was committed to him. When God breaths on that little you
have, it becomes so much.
The good news is that the giant fell. If you will dare face
your challenges with what you have, they will fall like a pack of cards. You won’t
only be breaking challenges; you will also be empowering people with the
capacity to overcome their challenge. David overcame Goliath; all the men
around him subsequently became giant killers.
The moment a challenge is solved, everyone discovers, it was
really possible. Your challenge is not impossible, it is possible. Just dare it
and see your reality
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