Giant's Diet (Poem)

We love the story of David, the teenage giant killer.

Man!

It revs up my courage just reading about this thriller!

This little fella who ‘stood taller’ than Goliath,

Taller still as he ‘trophied’ the head of this mammoth!

Here’s a secret about this fella, I’ll tell you upfront,

One you need to use to slay the giants that you confront.

You see,

Before David could slay giants, externally,

He first had to feed ‘his giant’, internally.

He spent countless mornings and nights learning to recognize,

Then learning to feed the giant he was, deep down inside.

He discovered the ‘right stuff’ on which this giant would thrive,

Then he fed and fed, ‘till all other giants were …downsized!

Ummm…

What is this inside giant, and on what does he feed?

This you need to know; it’s exactly what you need.

There’s no way your outside giants can be defeated,

If your inside giant’s resources are depleted!

Your inside giant is your unlimited essence,*

The real you that you are, created in semblance

Of Him ‘Who is Who He is’, The LORD God Almighty

The Judge of ALL spirits, Creator of ALL is He.

He created all living things on fruits and plants to feed.

Then sin changed all of this, and now on each other we feast!

He fashioned our spirit to thrive on Light that’s in Him,

Then sin changed this, too, now we feed on things dark and dim.

This, David corrected, and changed his spirit’s diet.**

His relationship with God, he fed without limit.

With prayer, praise, and prostration, his giant began to stir,

It grew until, to him, it was the biggest giant on earth!

Lion, bear, DEAD! Now, Goliath’s importunity

On God’s great stage was just one more opportunity

To show this deviant and all those he was fleecing,

And show the world, too, on Whom David had been feeding!

Like all our world,

Are you still waiting for someone to come and slay

All those giants that are fleecing your world today?

If so, let’s just keep on feeding on Him Whom David fed.

Then,

Let’s see through whom our God will ‘trophy’...

 all their evil heads!

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*   Your spirit.

** ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’. (Matthew/Luke 4:4)