The problem in conservative politics today is that the pundits are trying to take on Goliath without first slaying his relatives. Talk radio and Tea Parties are taking on the economy as the threat from Philistine government bureaucrats.
What they fail to realize is that they, and the generation before them, failed to kill Goliath’s relatives. Yes, there were four other giants which the Israelites killed. One was Ishbinenob; another was Saph. The two others were not named. (see Samuel 21:15-22)
What does this bible-babel mean? you may be thinking. It means that the four other giants were never successfully faced, let alone subdued. Giants like getting prayer back in the public square and schools, upholding the sanctity of human life and rejecting a quality of life ethic, saving marriage and the family from radical homosexual politics, and exposing our national sins from America’s pulpits. Giants which we never fully faced on the battlefield. Now we must face the more imposing King of Giants – Goliath himself – with less valor, fewer notches in our war belt, dwindling numbers, and all the while endure the scorn and roar of Goliath’s relatives towering behind him.
If we would go back and kill the other giants, then Goliath might not even be an issue. At the very least, he would lose his nerve. The unwelcome fact is that even if we manage to kill Goliath, we lose the war. What good is economic freedom if we have a nation full of school children with no morals, doctors and patients with no conscience, families with no leadership, and pastors and believers with no nerve?
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Excellent post, Lamar, as always! Thanks for posting your thoughts… always thought provoking and edifying.
Bonnie
Goliath met his fate against David because he did not lay down to rest and sleep as instructed but his punish was just. He was well aware of the consequences of standing in the way of a man with a task to complete.