A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                            ONE SLING SHOT WILL DO PART VI

"I, David, youngest son of Jesse, have just now arrived at the battle field of the Israeli army and the  Philistine army....I have not come here to join the Israeli army.... For I am a shepherd and not a soldier.... But I have come here at the direction of my father Jesse.... He asked me to visit my brothers who are soldiers in the Israeli army.... They are here in the Valley of Elah as part of the Israeli army.... I managed to find my brothers.... They were quite surprised to see me.... So I told them I had come because our father wants to make sure they have enough food supplies to last them for the battle.... I was still talking with them when I heard someone making a shout.... It came from the direction of the Philistine army.... It was a shout unlike any other shout I have ever heard in my life....To my shock and horror the Israeli army began to run in fear.... What are they doing running away?".... Please read the typed out attachment when David has arrived at the battle field to visit his brothers who are part of the Israeli army that is fighting against the Philistine army, only to hear the shout of a loud Philistine named Goliath....


        ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                        ONE SLING SHOT WILL DO PART VI

While David, the youngest son of Jesse, was talking to his brothers who are soldiers in the Israeli army that is fighting against the Philistine army in the Valley of Elah, a huge man appeared on the scene, the Philistine giant named Goliath as you can read in I Samuel 17:23-24

As he was talking with them, Goliath the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. When the Israelites saw the man, they all ran from him in fear.

David hears Goliath for God has made certain that David does not appear too late or too early but arrives at the right time when Goliath steps forward to shout his usual defiance. The other Israelites hear Goliath as well and they run out of fear. But David is not one of the soldiers who runs away. He is a shepherd who knows his God and who has seen his God do mighty things.