Leaping Over a Wall

“By my God I can leap over a wall” (2 Samuel 22:30).

These words were spoken by a man who had lived a life full of ups and downs, a man who had to experience bitter disappointments but who was also able to have glorious experiences with his God. It was David who spoke these words, explaining that with his God, anything was possible.

Is our God different from the God of David? No - and that is why we can make David's words our own. They give us courage and should be a new incentive today to surrender ourselves completely to our God. With Him, we can leap over every wall in our lives.

There are walls in everyone's life, even in the lives of God's children. Not everything always goes smoothly and without a hitch. Walls are obstacles and difficulties that sometimes suddenly and unexpectedly stand in our way and seem impossible. Who doesn't know them, these walls that get in our way, these situations in which we don't know what to do and see no way out!

Don't children at school already know such walls? There's a teacher who doesn't like the believers. Some classmates make fun of their faith. There's a difficult exam or test that you're afraid of.

Later in life, these walls continue. Suddenly, difficulties arise in the personal sphere: Your job is in danger; you have problems with work colleagues or superiors. A serious and persistent illness stands in the way like a wall. Suddenly, things don't work out as they should in the family. The children cause difficulties and go their own way. There can also be situations in assemblyThe literal meaning is “called out”: • called out of "the darkness" (1. Pet 2:9)—this refers to the area where there is a lack of light about God Himself, His... More life that leave us facing a wall.

God can also put walls in our way in everyday areas. Why were you late for your appointment yesterday because of the traffic jam on the highway, making you miss an important business transaction? Why did your last vacation suddenly fall through when you so desperately needed to relax? Why did God allow you to have this annoying accident last week? Why? Why? We could go on with this list and list all kinds of walls. But let's ask ourselves: What do we do with these walls? How do we react when problems and obstacles arise when difficulties and worries come? There are three possible reactions. Two lead to a dead end; one allows us to jump over the walls like David.

• The first possibility is that we give up in the face of a problem. We see the hurdle in front of us and immediately shrink back. We don't even try to overcome the obstacle. Such an attitude results in us becoming discouraged and unhappy. We can then no longer rejoice in our Lord. We have an example of this resignation in the prophetA prophet is someone who receives a message from God and passes it on to a specific group in the Old Testament, very often Israel. Prophets are, therefore, in close... More Elijah. The evil queen Jezebel wanted to kill him. Faced with this wall, the otherwise fearless man of God lost his heart. He fled into the desert and sat down under a broom bush, sad. All joy of life had left him, and he even wanted to die. This is where we can end up if we give up.
• A second way to react is to rebel against what God sends us. Then, we want to push our heads through the wall and get our way. Such an attitude of aggression can never be positive but will only ever harm us. We will then wear ourselves out inwardly, and the peace of God can no longer rule our hearts. The prophetA prophet is someone who receives a message from God and passes it on to a specific group in the Old Testament, very often Israel. Prophets are, therefore, in close... More Jonah should serve as an example of this. In the commission that God gave him, he saw a wall. He did not want to go to Nineveh because, as a prophetA prophet is someone who receives a message from God and passes it on to a specific group in the Old Testament, very often Israel. Prophets are, therefore, in close... More of Israel, he did not like this message to the nations. He, therefore, tried to flee from the face of God. We know the end of this path of open rebellion. In the belly of the fish, he reached the lowest point of his life, which also became the turning point of his life.
• The third way to deal with the walls in our lives is to accept everything that comes from the hand of God in the firm confidence that He will give us the strength to overcome every obstacle. Such an attitude of heart does not allow us to forget the problems and difficulties, but it does help us to remain completely calm inside. Paul urges us to make all our needs known to God so that we can enjoy his peace (Phil 4:6, 7). We can learn from the example of Job. We know what walls piled up in his life. His wife asked him to rebel against God. But Job only replied to her: "We accept what is good from God, and should we not also accept what is evil?" (Job 2:10). We certainly find such an attitude of heart difficult because it goes against our nature, but the Lord is there and wants to help us. He wants us to be able to say with Paul out of conviction and experience: "But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us" (Romans 8:37) and: "I can do all things in him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13).