And the seventh day they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times… so that the city fell. — Joshua 6:15, 20 (paraphrased reference)
Have you ever tried to do something and it just did not seem to be working? Not long ago, I was trying to fix a programming issue on the Another Well website. I sat down and tried everything that should have worked. Every solution I attempted was technically correct. The logic made sense. The steps were right. And yet nothing happened. Time and again I tried the same approach, confident it should produce a result, only to watch it fail again. The frustration built. I started to lose hope that it would ever be resolved.
And then, suddenly, what should have worked all along finally worked. The fix took hold. The problem was solved. It was such an incredible moment of relief after what had felt like an exercise in futility.
Looking back, nothing about my approach changed in that final attempt. I was simply doing what I had already been doing. The difference was not in the method. It was in the timing.
Israel experienced something similar at the walls of Jericho. After crossing the Jordan, God instructed them to march around the city once a day for six consecutive days. No weapons drawn. No battle cry. Just marching, in obedience, around a city whose walls remained completely unmoved. Imagine being part of that march on day three. Day four. Day five. Nothing was happening. The walls looked exactly the same as they had on day one. If anyone had reason to question whether this strategy made any sense at all, it was the people circling Jericho with no visible progress to show for it.
And then came the seventh day. They marched seven times. The priests blew the trumpets. The people shouted. And the walls collapsed.
The breakthrough did not come because the people suddenly did something different. It came because they kept doing what God had instructed, all the way through the silence, all the way to the day when the obedience finally met the moment it was leading to.
Most people quit somewhere around day three or four. The walls have not moved. The results are nowhere in sight. The temptation to believe that this approach simply is not working becomes overwhelming. And so the marching stops just short of the breakthrough it was leading toward.
If you have been marching for a while, praying the same prayer, showing up faithfully, doing the right thing again and again with nothing visibly changing, do not assume that the silence means it is not working. The walls of Jericho looked the same on day six as they did on day one. Right up until they did not.
Whatever you are facing today may be closer to its seventh day than you realize. Keep marching. Keep showing up. Keep doing what God has called you to do even when the results are invisible. The breakthrough is not always preceded by signs of progress. Sometimes it is preceded by nothing but obedience, repeated faithfully, day after day, until the day the walls finally come down.
You do not always see the wall weakening. You just keep marching until it falls.
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