The other day I was working at the daycare with my friend Megan. It was Bible story time and the day's story was Joshua and the battle of Jericho. So Megan is sitting there reading the story to the children and when she's done, a child said "How can a huge wall like that be knocked down with no weapons. Cheering can't make a wall fall." I stopped what I was doing and Megan said something along the lines of "Sometimes you don't need a weapon to tear a huge wall down. These people had God to do the work for them."
My mind was blown. Once again, God used a friend to speak something hugely profound (if that is indeed proper grammar).
You see, I had started building walls again in my life. I moved off campus, and it was like nothing had changed for the first week. Then school started and so did life again. I had to start scheduling times to see my friends and I knew that I couldn't keep up with everybody. What I wasn't ready for was feeling the loss of friendships. So, I built a wall around my heart and stopped communicating with my best friends. All because I didn't want to feel what I was feeling any more.
But with those two sentences from my friend's mouth, I knew at once I had to let them be torn down. And it's not easy. To let not only God in to tear them down, but to allow the people that have the greatest potential to hurt me in.
I want to close with this from Nathan Foster- a SW professor at Spring Arbor.
"Love is the Remidy" and it is so true. To allow love into my life has been the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.
