It May Not Make Sense - But Just Believe

Six days. Six days of walking around the same walls. In silence. No battle cry. No weapons drawn. No visible sign of anything happening. Just marching. Round and round the walls of Jericho, one time each day, and then back to camp.

Can you imagine what that looked like from the outside?

And more importantly, can you imagine what it felt like from the inside? Day one, nothing. Day two, nothing. Day three, you start looking for a crack in the wall. Some small sign that what you are doing is working. Day four, still nothing. Day five, the walls look exactly the same as they did when you started. Day six, you have now walked around this city six times and there is absolutely no evidence that anything is about to happen.

The Bible does not record a single crack. Not one sign.

And then came day seven. On the seventh day they marched around seven times. The priests blew the trumpets. Joshua told the people to shout. And when they shouted, the walls of Jericho came down flat.

Six days of nothing. And then everything. This is how God works more often than we are comfortable admitting. Right up until the moment the miracle happens, it will not look like a miracle is coming. There will be no preview. No trailer. No early sign that what you are doing is producing anything at all.

Because God is not asking you to see it happening. He is asking you to obey until it does.

There is a tree called the Chinese bamboo.

When you plant it and water it, nothing happens for years. Year one, nothing above the ground. Year two, nothing. Year three, nothing. Year four, nothing. You are watering what looks like empty soil. Anyone watching would tell you to give up. To try something else. To accept that nothing is growing.

But something is happening underground. The root system is spreading, deepening, establishing itself. And then in the fifth year, the bamboo shoots up. In a matter of weeks it can grow up to ninety feet tall.

The growth was happening the whole time. You just could not see it.

That is the story of Jericho. That is the story of your obedience right now.

Naaman experienced the same thing.

When Elisha told him to go and dip in the Jordan seven times to be healed of his leprosy, Naaman was furious. It made no sense to him. He had traveled a long way expecting a dramatic encounter. Instead he got an instruction that offended his logic.

But his servants persuaded him. He went. He dipped once, nothing. Twice, nothing. Three times, four times, five times, six times, nothing visible. And on the seventh time he came out of the water with skin like a little child.

The pattern is consistent all through scripture. The miracle lives on the other side of complete obedience. Not partial obedience. Not obedience up to the point where it starts making sense. Complete obedience to the full instruction.

“So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God — and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.” — 2 Kings 5:14

I want to say something clearly. Do not use your five senses to evaluate what God has asked you to do. Your senses were not designed to process the supernatural. They will always tell you that what God is asking makes no sense. They will always look for evidence before they cooperate. They will always calculate the odds and come back with a report that says this is not going to work.

That is not their fault. That is just their limitation.

Faith operates in a different dimension entirely. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” - Hebrews 11:1

The evidence faith works with is invisible to the natural eye. But it is real. More real than what your senses can detect.

Your assignment is not to figure out how God is going to do it. Your assignment is to do what He told you to do. Exactly as He told you to do it. With the full expectation that He will bring it to pass in His way and in His time.

Leave the how to God. He does not need your help to perform His own word. No man can help God. No man needs to.

What He needs from you is your obedience. Your faith. Your willingness to keep marching on day six when the walls still look completely untouched.

Because day seven is coming.

“For the Lord your God is He who has fought for you.” - Joshua 23:3

Keep marching. Keep obeying. Keep believing.

The walls will fall.

— Redeemed Family