David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17:38-47)
Rocky. Mulan. Aladdin. The 1980 USA Olympic hockey team.
What do they all have in common? They’re all underdog stories. And we love them.
We often think of David and Goliath as an underdog story but there’s actually more to the story. It’s the story of what happens when people turn away from God and put their trust in something else. It’s a story about God giving his people what they wanted. It’s a story about a God who "having disarmed the powers and authorities, made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." It’s a story with a hero, but we are not the hero. Neither is Saul, nor David, but it is the Lord.
