Courage is what happens when we’ve made a thousand small, hard choices requiring our attention and effort, risking embarrassment and even failure, to honor the vulnerable within our care, including the vulnerability within our own souls. Courage is what comes out of you when you’ve practiced standing up to the giants of shame, lions of lies, and bears of brokenness so repeatedly that it becomes second nature. The truth is, David’s courage wasn’t just his audacity to believe God would save him that day; it was every choice he made to become the kind of person who would risk believing it.
