Maybe we don’t understand… but He does.
Have you ever been required to do something that maybe didn’t seem necessary or maybe didn’t even seem applicable to what needed to be accomplished? When I was in school, I recall our algebra teacher requiring every step to be written out, even if it could be done mentally or combined with another step. Even if the answer was correct, points were deducted if steps were missing. In English class, some papers required a certain format. It wasn’t just the content of the essay that affected the final grade, but also that all instructions were followed in the presentation.
The other day, during my study of Joshua, I was reading chapter six, where God instructed them to march around Jericho. I had to wonder what was going through their minds as they marched each day. I mean, it didn’t seem like a typical strategy to conquer a city, at least not from a human perspective.
And at that thought, two verses that I had memorized earlier this month from two completely different books of the Bible came into my mind and perfectly connected with this passage in Joshua. The first verse, Isaiah 55:8-9, says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my way, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (KJV), and the second verse, Proverbs 3:5, instructs, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding” (KJV). God’s ways are above our ways. He knows all. Maybe marching around the wall seemed a bit odd, but that is what they were instructed to do. They were not to skip steps or decide to march only on the seventh day, thinking that is all that should matter. They were to follow all instructions. They were not to trust in their own understanding of this type of situation. They had to put complete trust in God. And by completely trusting God and following His guidance, the wall fell.
