Stranger Things, Part 3: Waiting for the Walk


But not what he expected. The sound they released wasn’t chaos—it was commanded. It wasn’t random—it was rhythmic. And in the silence that followed… the wall under his feet shuddered then started to move away.

Joshua had received strange instructions before. But this? This topped the list. No siege engines. No torches. No shouting. Just walking. Circling. Day after day. It wasn’t just strange. It was utterly uncomfortable. God wasn’t asking Israel to do the brave thing. He was asking them to do the obedient thing. That’s the difference. Because bravery flexes for the crowd. Obedience bends in the silence. They walked in circles while Jericho laughed. And maybe the Israelites started wondering if they were becoming the joke. But that’s the thing with God, He doesn’t work on human timelines. And He’s never obligated to explain Himself.

By the seventh day, they’d done enough walking to wear grooves into the earth. They hadn’t drawn a sword. They hadn’t screamed. They hadn’t taken a single brick from the wall. Just steps. And silence. And surrender. And then… that sound. Not just from the trumpets, but from the obedient breath of a nation releasing its faith in a distinct and very present shout.

And the wall—so thick, so proud, so sure of itself—collapsed. Not because of human strength. But because God decided obedience was enough.

We all have Jerichos.
They don’t always look like fortified cities. Sometimes they look like:

• a toxic workplace you can’t leave

• a parent who never “sees you”

• a classroom that suffocates your creativity

• a bank account stuck at zero

• a relationship that’s one-sided and totally draining

We pray, “God, take the wall down!” But what if He’s still waiting for the walk?What if the wall outside can’t fall until the one inside does? Because sometimes the real Jericho is internal.
That quiet rebellion.
That persistent doubt.
That secret resentment.
That place where we’ve said, “Not that, Lord. I’ll obey in everything else—but not that.”

And God says, “Circle it. Obey. Even if it doesn’t make sense. Especially then.”

Because the breakthrough doesn’t come when we understand the strategy.
It comes when we trust the Commander.

So maybe today the question isn’t, Why is this wall still standing?
Maybe the question is, What is inside me that is still resisting? 

Too often we fixate on the external Jerichos when the real breakthrough waits behind the internal walls we’ve built against total obedience.

And when those walls fall...
everything else follows.