Psalms 2:4
He (the Lord God Almighty) who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them.
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I believe that most everybody has heard the account of David and Goliath, but do you know the whole story? Let's at least have a good overview:
 
The army of the Philistines marched onto land in Ephes-dammim belonging to Judah, obviously prepared to make war. The men of Israel led by King Saul came there in battle array and camped on a mountain on one side of the valley of Elah while the Philistines stood on the mountain on the other side with the valley between them. {1Sam.17:3} It looked as though all-out war was in the making!

The Philistines sent their champion Goliath, a monster of a man, six cubits and a span tall (over eight feet) {1Sam.17:4} onto the valley floor to challenge the people of God. He huffed and he puffed and shouted at Israel's army and dared them to face him!
 
For forty days, the army of God, dismayed and afraid, would put on their battle array and continue to stand on the mountain on their side and shout war cries over at the Philistines. It must have looked like children on a schoolyard shouting names at each other. However, in spite of the fact that they were not actually engaging the enemy, they were sending reports back home telling of the fighting with the Philistines. Word 'of the fighting' (?) reached Jesse the father of young David and he sent him off, back and forth, to bring food to his three older brothers.
 
While David was there at Judah's camp he heard Goliath making his regular daily visit to the battlefield, shouting taunts at Israel's army and was obviously stirred, but not to fear and dismay. He spoke to the soldiers around him asking, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should taunt the armies of the living God?” A question that seemed to upset his brothers more than Goliath did!

Well, to make a long story short, young David who had been delivered as he fought with the lion and the bear protecting his father’s flock, {1Sam.17:36-37} wound up going on to the battle field in the valley where Goliath was sitting and relaxing, unthreatened after all these days.
 
David went to him and said to him, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted." That is when Goliath got up from where he was sitting—he knew that he was in for a fight now! Indeed, he was, and it was a fight he lost terminally to young David; a battle now still known worldwide after more than three thousand years.
 
Alright, we know what the Philistine army was doing and what their champion Goliath was doing. We know what King Saul and the army of Israel was doing (or not doing) and we know what David did. The battle was won before it had begun! Remember that Jesus would say that the Father knows what we need before you even ask Him. {Mat.6:8} It is after all about Christ in us the hope of glory that Paul spoke of! {Col.1:27}

The most important question then brings us back to today's Scripture: What was God doing when He saw Goliath and the enemy army? The answer is that He was sitting on His throne laughing! David certainly knew:
 
“The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him; For He sees his day is coming. But You, O Lord, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.”  (Psalms 37:12-13 & 59:8)
 
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