It-Takes-One-To-Make-One

NCAA basketball tournament starts today!! March Madness to all us sports geeks. 65 college basketball teams, from very very famous and established universities to never heard of them before schools, all in the same tournament with an equal chance to win. One game elimination, thus the madness. Everyone is buzzing about their brackets and trying to figure who will be this years giant killer.

Ever thought about the history of Giant killing? Don't think it started with the basketball tournament. When David stepped out to face Goliath, do you think he said, "I wonder if this has ever been done before? This is a regular David verses Goliath situation".

Even more interesting question, How many giant killers were in King Saul's army? Answer- NOT ONE!!! When Goliath challenged Israel every soldier quaked with fear. Yet David, who came to bring food to his brothers, sized up the situation, recalled his experiences with God and went out and killed him.

Now, after David became king, how many other giant killers arose in Israel? I count at least three:
1. "Then Sibbecai...killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the giants, and they were subdued.
2. "And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan...killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
3. "Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; and he also was descended from the giants. When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.

These were descended from the giants in Gath [Goliath's home town], and they fell by the hand of David and by the hands of his servants" (1Ch 20:4-8 NAS).

Why do you suppose there were no giant killers in Saul's day? Because Saul himself wasn't one! But under David's leadership they multiplied because David was a giant killer. This illustrates the "it-takes-one-to-make-one" principle that starts in Genesis and runs through the Bible. God shows us how He intends things to work in life:

"Let the earth bring forth the living creature...each according to its kind." Genesis 1:24

Each one of us is a product of our DNA and our environment. Be careful who influences you, and be careful how you influence others. What are you making today and what is being made in you. Be a giant killer, it is what God created you to be!!!