In your walk with God and particularly as you engage the giants in your life you must be the person God called you and made you to be. However, learning to be ourselves can be intimidating. There may be times when we have to do things differently than what is considered normal. David in the battle with Goliath was denying traditional wisdom by going to fight a battle-hardened soldier in a simple tunic. Indeed, God likes to work with the original and the unconventional because He is original and unconventional.
People may try to put us in a box with their expectations. This usually is not because of any ill intent, but because they want what they are accustomed to. They want normal. God, however, has called us to be more than normal. To reach the heights of victory that God has planned for us, we must be willing to go outside the comfort of normalcy. We must not discount the unique anointing that God has placed on each of our lives. Normalcy tries to fit us in a mould when God didn’t use a mould to make us. When we try to fit a mould instead of listening to God’s voice and walking in our unique anointing, we are in danger of trying to fight our battles apart from the anointing. We must be willing to fully embrace who He has made us to be, uniquely, and play to the strengths of our gifts and anointing.
This is possible, of course, only when we are filled with the presence of God. Who we are is inseparably connected to who He is and what He has done in us. Because of this, as giant slayers we must be careful to never lose our value for the presence of God. We must never become so confident in our anointing and the battles we’ve already won that we stop spending time in God’s presence. His presence is everything. Jesus came and died so that we could be in the presence of our Father, God. It is in this place of knowing and being known by God that we receive our anointing and the wisdom we need for every battle. This is why David was able to defeat Goliath. He had spent years in God’s presence, worshiping with his harp as he tended the sheep. As a result, he knew his unique anointing, and he arrived at the battle full of God’s.
adapted from “Giant Slayers” by Leif Hetland