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.

Jesus offers an abundant life to

everyone who follows him.

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy,” Jesus said; “I have come that they may have life, and ha...

(1

Thessalonians 3:8).

And that means we can live freely in the power of what he has accomplished for us. It starts with seeing and believing that whatever giant we’re battling m...

They weren’t tapping into how all-powerful their God was, and how if they would just trust him and follow him and lean into him, then

they’d have access to that same power in their lives again.

I need someone bigger than my giant to set my gaze on. Otherwise, I listen needlessly to a dead Goliath when the Maker of heaven is holding me in his hands.

But it’s still a fight, because even dead giants can still call your name.

By sufficient we mean that Jesus is enough. He is all we need to fulfill God’s greatest purposes for our lives. Jesus is not deficient in anything. Jesus is not lacking or inadequate or meager or poor. He’s fully competent. He’s fully abounding. Thanks to Jesus, we sit at a banqueting table every day; our cups are constantly overflowing, and our plates are constantly full.

One big problem we often have as followers of Jesus is that we want to function as if life all depends on us. We do this because that’s what we’re used to. Sure, we believe in God, and we believe Jesus saves. We believe that Jesus transforms our lives (Romans 12:2).

We mistakenly believe it’s all up to us to conquer the giant.

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).

God has given us everything we need for our spiritual life. All joy. All value. All purpose. All hope. All comfort. All power to resist temptation. All power to change. All ability to live lives of godliness. All guidance and marked pathways to live for him.

“Unsearchable” literally means riches that can never be [fully] explored. You can form no estimate of them, and never get to the end of your investigation. There is a boundless continent, a world, a universe of riches that still lies before you, when you have carried your search to the limits of possibility.

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.