Where is my Slingshot?

Have you ever experience being discouraged by people who are close to you? People who are supposed to understand, people you taught are there to support you, to love you and to guide you …are the very same people who are bringing you down and giving you pain. Better if people you despise are the ones doing it, but the people you actually care….is a whole different story. “A brother offended is harder to be won, than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a citadel.” –Proverbs 18:19
We all know the story of David and Goliath. Even before David could confront and kill Goliath he first got discouraged….by his own brother, who despised and questioned the heart and motive of David (1Samuel 17:28) despite the fact he knows the potential of David (1Samuel 16:13). Are we like the brother of David who cannot confront the Goliath’s in our lives instead discouraging others because of our shortcomings? Or are we like David who never lose heart and fulfilled his destiny? Goliath’s in our lives are not there to break us, but to promote us, and to bring us to a higher level once we overcome it. Before David killed Goliath, he was known only as a shepherd and a harp player. It just took one stone and he was never the same again, from a shepherd to a fierce warrior to a king, respected by his people, promoted to a higher level. When faced with a problem of Goliath proportion, it does not matter what people may say or think, what matters is what you believe in your heart… never discouraged and fulfilling what God intended for you to become…..Once you overcome that Goliath, once you take that step of faith you will never be the same again. So pick up a stone and start slaying that Goliath.