How did David become skillfull using the slingshot?
- This isn't specifically addressed in Scripture, thought David would have had to practice like other people, but you can use the Factbook and other resources to learn about the sling and the cultural uses of it.
- I am a hunter as well as a fisher of men. I became skillful with firearms by using them, the same way a person may become skillful in the use of The Word Of God, as David also did. Growing up on a farm in Northern NY I hunted all manner of varmints and small game with a .22 rifle or a 20GA shotgun. I seldom shot at a target but rather became skillful by actually killing woodchucks, rabbits, squirrels, and other game and varmints. In the old days we had places called dumps where the refuse of the community was taken as trash and garbage. Rats congregated there and many of my contemporaries became proficient with firearms by shooting them - a service to humanity. The only way anyone ever gets good at something, unless he is some sort of prodigy, is to practice it. David practiced protecting the sheep; something far too few Pastors actually take to heart these days.
