fleeing from obstacles

¹⁶ For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.
¹⁷ Now Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah^[d] of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp. ¹⁸ Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance^[e] from them. ¹⁹ They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”
²⁰ Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. ²¹ Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. ²² David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. ²³ As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. ²⁴ Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.


Every morning the Philistines would come out and take up battle positions. Then, as usual, Goliath would come out from his position and shouted to challenge the Israelites to a battle. This shout caused the Israelites to run away in fear.  You may question, why are these people running away? These people are people of God! They have the power to defeat goliath! Why did they run? Do they not know their identity in Christ? That God had already won the victory that they are Children of Christ? God had taught them through Moses that they are special, God's people! Do they not know that? 

Similarly to us, God created us, He made us and won the victory for us already, we have to just CLAIM it, claim it in Jesus' name. We should not run away from our problems but run towards God. ever closer to Him.