Look, I have placed Jericho, his king, and his valiant in your hands; therefore, all men of war, you will surround the city, surround it once; you hear it ring, everyone will scream loudly; Will the city wall fall?(Js 6. 2,3,5)
“The children of Israel have put things off. ” (Joshua 7. 1). These are the first words of the first chapter after Jericho’s fall.
- God had just destroyed the city walls to give them victory.
- And before the dust settled.
- They abandoned it.
- They lost faith.
- They had seen a fortress fall.
- An army trembled.
- And a kingdom collapsed; God gave them triumph.
- Almost without a fight.
- They barely had to move a finger; they just raised their voices.
And then they rejected God’s voice, even though he realized what they feared, they did the only thing he told them not to do. Joshua, God’s messenger, said, “Do you keep things doomed?”(Joshua 6. 18). You don’t collect anything and you don’t like Jericho’s idols, but destroy them so they don’t steal your heart from God. “Have the children of Israel postponed the damned things?”
The temptations were already there for some as they walked silently through Jericho for six days, you can imagine them thinking, why don’t you break down the walls now?God had told them how their victory would come, but probably seven days began to be seen. about seven years as they walked and waited, walked and waited.
If you have been walking with Jesus for a long time, you have probably felt what some of them have felt: hope in God’s promises mixed with increasing impatience for his time; an awareness of God’s greatness and wisdom, but a persistent suspicion that you know more than he does; an authentic faith that would manifest itself in the end, but with persistent questions about how it would do so.
The Lord had said, “On the seventh day, you will turn around the city seven times, and the priests will play trumpets. ?When you hear his sound, everyone will scream with great cry; Will the city wall fall and people climb it?(Js 6. 4. 5).
Before that, he said: ?? Now prepare, pass this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land I give to the children of Israel. Wherever you walk with the floor of your foot, no one can resist you every day of your life; Won’t I leave you or leave you?(Js 1. 2,3,5).
And until that moment, God had not let them down, so they walked and waited, walked, and waited. They toured Jericho once a day for six days, wondering how God would tear down those walls.
On the seventh day, as I had said, God made His expectation even more dominant. They walked seven times around the same walls that day. And as they were told, “Then the people cried, and the priests played trumpets. collapsed, and people went up to the city “and took it” (Joshua 6:20).
It happened as God said, and yet it must have surprised many. This generation had not seen the plagues in Egypt, nor Moses divided the Red Sea, nor did he see God annihilate Pharaoh’s army. They had crossed the Jordan on dry land and won their own battles, but not so. They had not seen the fortified walls fall at the sound of their voice. God toppled the defenses, subdued his enemies, and gave them the city.
What walls do you want to see fall? This can be a difficult or broken relationship with a family member or friend. It may be his fight against a sin that attacked him. They can be huge barriers to the department.
You have walked, waited and prayed, and yet the walls in front of you remain high and strong above you, trying to make you feel small and forgetful. But what did God tell you?” So what are we going to say in the light of these things?? If God is for us, who against us? He who did not forgive his own Son, but abandoned him for all of us, will not give us all in grace with him?(Rom 8,31. 32). Your God will never leave you, will He ever give you everything?And everything else will get dark in relation to having it. And all the walls you’ve faced will look small.
“Did the children of Israel procrastinate?” It’s a stern warning. Until God breaks the last wall, we will be tempted to put our hearts on something else. Never forget that He did not forgive your Son for you. Never forget that He promised all things forever. Never forget the mountains he’s already moved for you and believe me, he’ll do it again.