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I’ve been thinking a lot about the children of God and Jericho today. And the weird and seemingly useless things they had to do to get those walls to come down. Walk around for seven days.

Yet nowhere in the Bible does it say they questioned God, nor asked Him what the purpose was of walking around those walls. They didn’t ask Him to tear down the walls without their daily walks. They just…did it.

And we still don’t know why God wanted them to walk around. We have our guesses, I’m sure. But why exactly He made them walk around, we won’t know on this side of heaven.

Some of them had to wonder. Question a LITTLE. They were human. They had to. But they still obeyed.

I don’t want to be caught complaining or doubting or asking. I want to be the one in front, leading the people around in what seemed to be useless because I fully and completely trust in Him that it is not. I want to be the trumpet blower.

Today I went running in the -7 degree wind chill. People looked at me like I was crazy. But I know what happens when I let too many days go by without running. I didn’t lose all these inches for nothing. So I ran. And people’s blank stares and the cold winds didn’t stop me at all.

I liked having my own little purpose that no one understands. And knowing that that run is going to pay off.

And if I have to walk around a gigantic wall with no known purpose, I will do it. I will keep my head up. And I will praise Him the whole way.

So for seven whole days they walked around that great wall.
‘Til the Lord said, “SHOUT” and they watched it fall, singing,
“Great is the Lord Almighty, He is Lord, He is God indeed.
Great is the Lord.”