There are certain moments in life that you never forget. The day you graduate. The day you get married. The day you hold your first child. The day God answers a prayer you’ve been praying for years.
Time is measured by minutes, but life is measured by moments.
The Moment
When we come to Hebrews 11, we’re reminded that faith is often revealed in those defining moments. The writer points us to one of the most famous stories in all of Scripture: the fall of Jericho. For forty years, Israel had wandered in the wilderness. An entire generation had passed. Moses was gone. Joshua was now leading God’s people, and the promise God had made centuries earlier to Abraham was finally coming into view.
The Promised Land was right in front of them. There was just one problem, Jericho stood in the way.
This wasn’t a small obstacle. Jericho was heavily fortified with massive walls and trained soldiers. Humanly speaking, there was no way Israel could conquer the city. Yet before a single trumpet sounded or a single step was taken, God said something remarkable:
“Look, I have handed Jericho, its king, and its best soldiers over to you.” (Joshua 6:2)
God spoke about the victory as if it had already happened.
That’s often how faith works. God sees what we cannot yet see. He knows the outcome while we’re still staring at the obstacle. Maybe you know what that feels like.
Maybe your Jericho isn’t a city. Maybe it’s an addiction you’ve fought for years. Maybe it’s anxiety that keeps creeping back into your life. Maybe it’s a broken relationship, a difficult marriage, a prodigal child, or a situation that seems impossible to fix. The encouraging truth of this story is that God specializes in bringing down walls that people cannot.
God didn’t ask Joshua to understand everything. He simply asked him to obey.
That’s still how God works today.
The March
The instructions God gave Israel sounded strange. Instead of building weapons or developing a battle strategy, they were told to walk. Day after day. Lap after lap. Trusting that God was doing something even when they couldn’t see it.
Can you imagine being there on Day Three?
The walls were still standing.
Nothing looked different.
No cracks. No movement. No evidence that anything was happening.
Yet every step was an act of faith.
The Miracle
That’s where many of us live. We’re somewhere between Day One and Day Seven. We’re praying, but the answer hasn’t come yet. We’re trusting, but the breakthrough hasn’t happened. We’re doing what God has called us to do, but we aren’t seeing results. The temptation is always to quit too soon.
Jericho reminds us that just because you can’t see God working doesn’t mean He isn’t.
Keep praying.
Keep trusting.
Keep obeying.
Don’t quit on Day Six.
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