COMMON SENSE OR FAITH ?

If you asked me which I'd rather have I'd choose FAITH every time!

Was it COMMON SENSE OR FAITH that took down the giant Goliath?

David who was just a young boy ran to the battle. There he found grown men dressed for battle but not entering into the battle. They were afraid of the giant. David quickly agreed to fight the giant. Those around him would be quick to say you can't do that. In 1 Samuel 17:33 King Saul said to David "You are not able to go against the giant to fight with him; for you are a youth , and he a man of war from his youth...IT DID NOT MAKE COMMON SENSE... verse 28 tells us that even his own brothers got ANGRY with David.

Yet the story goes on to tell us that David not only killed the giant but he did it with a sling shot and a stone. David told the giant who was mocking him "you come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of Host. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand. And He did.

Was it COMMON SENSE OR FAITH for Noah to build the ark?

Can't you just hear the people saying to Noah " It doesn't make sense Noah, why are you building a boat. The people had never seen rain. Yet Noah build a boat and the rains came.

Was it COMMON SENSE OR FAITH that cause Abraham to place his son on the alter?

Abraham and Issac went to the mountain alone that morning. Abraham told the others to stay behind. Had they gone up the mountain with Abraham he may have very well heard them say " Abraham God gave you common sense, surely this is not what God would want. It just doesn't make sense.

God's word tells us in 1 Corinthians 1:27 " But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise. 2 Corinthians 2:5 states that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the POWER of God.

My favorite verse is Hebrews 11:6 which states that without FAITH it is impossible to please God.

Hebrews chapter 11 begins by saying that FAITH is the substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN

Webster's dictionary defines FAITH as "Unquestioning belief in God, complete trust or confidence.

Webster's dictionary defines COMMON SENSE as "good sense or practical judgment."

To break it down further the word COMMON is defined as "shared by all, widespread."
(God's word says the road is narrow and FEW there be who find it)

And the word SENSE is defined as "normal intelligence and judgment: receiving of sense impressions through body organs such as hearing, sight, touch, taste, smell.

I don't want to be COMMON.

I don't want to be of the mindset of the common which is shared by all, like those who surrounded the giant and did nothing. I want to be a David who will go up against the giants in our life no matter what that giant looks like to the natural eye.

"That I may PROCLAIM with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works'
Psalm 26:7