I once wondered,
Truth is so vast, so infinite:
How can I know enough of it to be able to heal?
How much of God's Word must I master, I've asked myself,
before I'll impart blessed comfort and relief?
But then I thought
of David, a simple shepherd boy—
and of Goliath, arrogant fear that loomed so large!
A brook full of stones, I recalled, and five chosen by David,
but only one was needed to slay that fear.
Then I began to see
the sum total of that boundless Truth,
figured by the entire collection of stones in the brook.
Far too innumerable to gather up all at once! So I, like David,
take from that immensity, five
