How God Rewards Faithfulness in Hard Times
Imagine being one of the Israelites standing before Jericho. God's command must have sounded strange: march around the city once a day for six days, then seven times on the seventh day. No battering rams. No military strategy. No logical explanation for how those massive walls would ever crumble. All God asked for was obedience. We don't know exactly how many Israelites were there, but Scripture describes a vast multitude, hundreds of thousands of people. What stands out is this: there is no record of anyone refusing. No one complained about the repetitive task. No one quit because their feet were tired. Day after day, they obeyed what God had told them to do, even though nothing visible was changing. The walls of Jericho were enormous. Historians estimate that one lap around the city was between 1 and 1.5 kilometres. Over seven days, the Israelites circled Jericho thirteen times in total, once a day for six days, then seven times on the final day. That amounts to r...