Introduction to “Questions to ask your Minister”
What motivated David to fight Goliath?
That’s the question I often ask people to gauge their response and sus-out their in-depth knowledge of the old testament. A picture is painted that David was God’s Champion. His courage came from God. His motivation and battle-cry was “who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the army of the Living God”.
That’s all wrong. An assumption. Like an assumption many people have that Jesus was Caucasian.
The fact (based on the story in 1st Samuel) is that DAVID and Donald Trump had a lot in common. The emotion that motivated Trump and David was the 3rd of the 7 Deadly Sins – GREED. David didn't want to have to pay taxes for life. Pure and simple – yet sinfully deadly – GREED.
That was part of the reward that Saul the King of the Israelites was offering to the man that killed Goliath. He had heard that and was so preoccupied that he asked around if it was true.
David wasn't so brave as the picture is painted, the first time David heard Goliath speak he ran with everyone else. All Israel ran from Goliath – and David, is in ALL
Here’s another question for those who want to contemplate the story. when David arrived to find His brothers, with no electricity, no public address system and 10 thousand or so soldiers between David and Goliath, how did David even hear Goliath?
One of the many reasons I am of the opinion that I and others should close our minds to the old testament. Non of our business really, was not written with us in mind. In any event it is fully fulfilled in my Lord and Saviour, Jesus the Christ.
Apart from poetry in the book of psalms and motivational sayings from Proverbs, I pay no heed to it. I realise that the words in book the Book of Psalms & Proverbs are the words of mortal and by nature sinful men, they are not the words of my God, spoken by my God.
I am mindful to start a wee series entitled Questions to ask your Minister / Priest.
And to start with go to Question 1, “Who was God taking to”?
