“So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat.” (Joshua 6:20 NKJV)
Some walls seem set in concrete and impossible to budge. But if history tells us anything, it teaches that no matter how intimidating or long-standing, every wall will ultimately fall.
No wall looms as dramatically in our minds as the Berlin Wall. For twenty-eight years it divided East and West Berlin, communism and capitalism. It stretched across the city like an ugly gash, its barbed wire forming cruel stitches. Its great masses of concrete seemed immovable. But on November 9, 1989, the wall started to crumble. It collapsed without a shot being fired.
Jericho’s wall was similarly imposing. But through a small band of men who were willing to trust God for impossible things, that wall also came tumbling down.
Other walls, though less tangible, sometimes appear equally impossible to budge. The wall of a critical spirit. The wall of stubborn will. The wall of an offended friend.
Whether you’re facing a Berlin Wall or a wall around someone’s heart, remember -- there is no wall so strong that God is not stronger still.
-- Excerpts from “Esther: A Woman for Such a Time as This” Bible Study Guide by Charles R. Swindoll
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