Walls

Feel like things are closing in on you?  Being boxed-in?  Walled-off?  Walls serve a lot of purposes; to enclose, turn back, sometimes protect, divide, occasionally they hold up buildings.  Wal-Mart allows us to spend and save money while Wall Street allows us to spend and lose money.  You can drive someone up-a-wall, or, tell them they’re off-the-wall, either way, it’s not a pretty picture.  People like to say “If only these walls could talk”.  If, that happens you’ll find yourself in a wall-to-wall padded cell. 

Wait, What?!  People have found some strange ‘stuff’ behind walls.  Like what?  In 1850 a mummified baby tumbled out of a wall during a renovation project in a Persian apartment.  Millions of bees, spiders, snakes, skeletons, weapons and monies have been found behind walls.  Three-hundred pairs of shoes were found hidden behind a wall in Korschenbroich, Germany.  This was done to rid families of misfortune.  In Ohio Bob Kitts found $182,000 in Depression-era money hidden inside walls he was renovating.  He contacted the previous

home owner and they told him it belonged to the original owner Patrick Dunne (a wealthy businessman).  Naturally, a court case followed and after all was said and done, court fees, legal fees, labor involved, everybody received only a fraction of the find.  Go figure?       

Politicians build walls with bills, rules, mandates and regulations.  Prisons build walls to satisfy the laws.  Race builds still ‘bigger’ walls that isolate us worse than prisons.  Humpty Dumpty once fell off of one, or, was he pushed?  

Some people that don’t get out enough and think that those walls are closing in on them.  There’s an awful lot to say about walls.  Sometimes we erect walls between loved one and even God.  These walls separate us from God, great blessings and our families.  These are the times when you want to hear those famous four words of former President Ronald Reagan “Tear down this wall” (Berlin Wall).
  

 Walls have been built since ancient times, to make borders, to keep enemies out or to keep people (prisoners) in.  Let’s look at a few famous walls around the world: The Great Wall of China (5,500 miles long), The Western Wall or the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Hadrian’s Wall in England (73 miles long), Walls of Troy in Turkey, and the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. which honors those soldiers MIA and those who died serving their country in wartime.   How about the Walls of Jericho?  Many archeologists believe the wall didn’t exist.  The Bible says differently.  “Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and it’s fighting men””. Joshua 6:2 The next few verses 3-5 say: “March around the city once with all the armed men.  Do this for six days.  Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark.  On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.  When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout, then the wall of the city will collapse and the people will go up, every man straight in”.  The Wall of Jericho indeed collapsed (verse 20).   This was not just psychological warfare, it was God warfare.  Today we all face “walls” that are impossible to scale or break down by human strength.  There’s no wall or barrier that the Lord cannot penetrate, IF, you will just let him in.                      

 Bottom line:

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.” Proverbs 3:5-6

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