All of us need walls as a defence against the pains and battles of life, for we are vulnerable, dependent beings. We were not created to be self-sufficient, independent and powerful against all things. We were created to live in God’s garden, to walk with the LORD in the “cool of the day”, and to live in the presence of the Mighty God. With the Fall, our needs have not changed, but instead of relying upon God for our needs, we have tried to take full control of our lives, to be independent of God, even to the point of making ourselves “like God”. As we did so, sin entered the world, and with it the pains of life and the battles we need enter in order to protect ourselves from them.
As we try to be self-sufficient and independent, we build defences for ourselves around us, physically, as in the walled cities of old, or the modern weapons of war, and also emotionally and spiritually. We all have these emotional and spiritual ‘walls’ around our heart, and yet we repeatedly find that they get broken, for all man-made walls, be they physical or otherwise, are as vulnerable as the walls of Jericho, which collapsed as they faced the power of the LORD. We often talk of God breaking down the man-made walls of our hearts, which is absolutely necessary, BUT a city without walls is a city without defence or protection, and God does not leave us defenceless. Rather, He repairs broken walls by His spirit, providing us with a perfect defence.
The walls of our hearts are broken by ourselves, the pains of life, by others and sometimes even as a necessity by God. God’s Spirit is the ONLY building tool which can build an impregnable wall around our hearts, defending us from evil and allowing in the love of God, and the gifts and fruits of the same Spirit by which our new walls have been built.
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