Whose Glory?

David was certainly a physically strong man, but that was not what he was relying on. He most certainly loved his nation, but that is not what he was fighting for. He was surrounded by weak and timid men, but he was surrendered to the Lord of Hosts, and was confident of victory not for his own glory, but God’s. A lesson.

1 Samuel 17:46-47 ESV
[46] This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, [47] and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hand.”