WHEN GOD’S STRATEGY DEFIES LOGIC II
Joshua 6:20-27
God’s strategy again defied human reason at the walls of Jericho. The Israelites had marched for forty years through the wilderness to reach the fortified city. A city inaccessible, surrounded by towering walls and locked gates. But when the time for conquest came, God’s command was simple and strange: “March around the city once each day for six days, and on the seventh day, march seven times and shout” (Joshua 6:3–5). No battering rams. No siege. No weapons of war. Just worship, obedience, and a shout of faith.
And when they obeyed, the walls that no human hand could bring down collapsed in an instant. Victory came not through strength, but through obedience, not through logic, but through faith.
That is the nature of divine strategy: it often seems illogical until it succeeds. God deliberately chooses the unconventional to prove that victory does not depend on human wisdom or might. As Scripture says, “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty” (1 Corinthians 1:27).
Our challenge as believers is to trust Him even when His instructions don’t make sense. God may tell you to forgive when you want to fight, to give when you want to withhold, to wait when you want to rush. His ways will sometimes stretch your faith to the edge of reason. But those who walk by faith never lose their way, because obedience to divine direction always ends in victory.
When His instructions challenge your understanding, do not resist or question them. Trust the One who sees the end from the beginning. Obey, even when it feels unreasonable. Because in God’s strategy, faith is the bridge between the impossible and the inevitable. And when the dust settles, you will find yourself standing in victory. God’s strategy for victory is not about speed; it is about certainty.
Prayer: I receive grace to be obedient to your instructions
