It must have been quite a sight that day on the battlefield, a shepherd boy being dressed in royal armour. In 1^st Samuel 17: 38-39, King Saul, thrilled that David was going to take on Goliath, placed his own bronze helmet on the boy’s head, fitted him with his tunic, and strapped on his sword. The crowd must have gasped in admiration. Imagine it, a farm lad suddenly transformed into a soldier, glittering in the king’s armour!

But David didn’t walk, he stumbled.
The armour was too heavy, the sword too big, the helmet too loose.
And then came those timeless words, “I cannot go in these.”
He took them off.

That one act, my friend, is the difference between victory and defeat.

How often do we, like Saul, insist on fighting our battles with borrowed armour? The world hands us shiny weapons every day like deceit, manipulation, shortcuts, and bribery, and we eagerly strap them on, thinking they’ll make us powerful. “Bribe the judge,” says one friend, “and you’ll win the case.” “Pay the inspector,” whispers another, “and you’ll get your license.” “Blackmail your boss,” advises a colleague, “you’ll get the promotion you deserve.”

And like Saul’s armour, these methods glitter, they look strong, practical, and successful. Till you try walking in them. Then you realize they weigh you down, drain your peace, and make you stumble.

David refused that kind of protection. He stood before Goliath not with sword or shield, but with faith and five small stones. He wasn’t depending on royal metal, he was depending on divine might. “I come to you in the name of the Lord Almighty,” he shouted. That’s when Goliath’s days were numbered.

When you face your own Goliaths, corruption, temptation, fear, or injustice, whose armour do you wear? Do you reach for the world’s armour of compromise? Or do you, like David, put on God’s invisible but invincible one?

Look through the Bible and you’ll see it’s always been God’s strange armour that works best. Gideon fought with just three hundred men.

Joshua brought down Jericho with a shout.

Moses split the Red Sea by lifting a stick.

Ridiculous isn’t it? To the world, yes. But that’s what happens when you let God fight your battles; He laughs at human logic.

Maybe that’s what you need to do today: take off the armour that never fit you, the anger, the scheming, the fear, and hand it back to your Saul. Then kneel, pray, and let God clothe you instead.

As that old hymn says, “Put on the Gospel armour, each piece put on with prayer.”

Because when you wear God’s armour, even your smallest stone can bring down the mightiest Goliath…!

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