Goliath Must Fall: Winning the Battle Against Your Giants

by Louie Giglio

Wanting to steer toward great outcomes is noble. But trying to control the world is disastrous. In time, controllers crack under the reality that none of us are in control.

Worship is simply a shift of attention that allows us to see God better. Worship is like corrective lenses for our souls, bringing God clearer into view. That’s important for all of us, especially when life goes off the rails.

If we truly want to change, then we need to understand our dependency on the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ. Our change is more about trusting and less about trying.

“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness” (2 Peter 1:3).

“Everything we need.”

See, whenever a problem is concealed, it finds power in the darkness. But when a problem is confessed, it loses that power. Confession brings the light of Christ to shine upon that problem.

Here’s another way we depend upon the power of the name of Jesus. We pick up the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, and we read Scripture out loud and we memorize truths so the light of Jesus constantly shines in our minds and hearts.

Instead, we’re going to rally around the gospel. Jesus is fighting for us, and he has won the war, defeated the Enemy. Yes, we need to participate with Jesus, and we’re going to participate with him by his power and for his glory.

Victory starts with changing our minds and believing that Jesus fought once and for all, and our giant has fallen.

When the Sunday service is over, the same giant steps up and defies the power of God to keep us and save us and transform us.

What’s the solution? The solution is not more determination. The solution is faith. Our giants can taunt us, but they don’t have ultimate power. Jesus has the ultimate power. Jesus builds up our faith, and faith is the antidote to fear. Faith is saying, “I have confidence in God that he is bigger than this giant.”

Psalm 16:8. David said, “I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken” (ESV).

And this is our invitation from God—to constantly be aware of his presence. To reestablish our focus on Jesus. When we deliberately and purposely focus our attention on Christ, we are reminded that God is able.

Our responsibility is to have faith. That’s the antidote. God is able. Jesus is enough.

The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that’s better than rejection.

To be clear, complacency is not about what we own or don’t own. It’s cultivating and tolerating an off-target heart.

so we need to hold God at his word: that he is already victorious. We need to believe that our pain can be overcome. We need to remind ourselves that those giants don’t need to be giants any longer.

Jesus wants to take down our giants so we can walk free and have the life that he wants us to live. And he wants to do that so his name can be exalted above every other name in our world. That’s the reason that surpasses all other reasons. It’s so people around us look at our lives and say, “Your God is truly God.”

As long as our motivation remains only about getting freedom for ourselves, then we’re missing what’s most important, and we won’t truly have the full power to change.

but it’s not all about you. God does not exist for us; we exist for God.

He is simply asking you to see him—to see the work he has done for you and to believe again that he can raise any of us from the ashes of defeat.