Tumbling Up

At one of the worship services at our national meeting, the worship leader used Nehemiah as a scripture reference. If you remember, Nehemiah came to Jerusalem in order to rebuild the wall around the city. He worked hard, planning and organizing the effort. The worship leader said, "and the walls came tumbling up."

"And the walls came tumbling up." I love that phrase. Do you know what that says? It says that the effort to rebuild the walls only succeeded because God was involved. Walls can't tumble up, even with our very determined efforts. We can't make that happen. Only God can make that happen. Only God can make walls tumble up.

What else in our lives can only happen if God is involved? Do we fail to call on him? To notice him? Do we rely too much on ourselves and not at all on God, and then expect to make walls tumble up?