Your Wall and Mine

If you built a wall, strong and tall, you'd expect it to serve it's purpose. If it were built to keep animals in or enemies out, to retain your privacy in and other's eyes out, to protect you on the inside and to protect those on the outside, you'd build it to certain standards.

If I were to build a wall it would need to be with those same standards, especially if they were to work together. My wall cannot be weak next to your strong wall because a weak section can lead to the destruction of the whole thing and puts the whole community at risk.

In other words, our work in the life of the church is meant to stand together. Your work is as important as mine and everyone elses. If any wall is built to a lesser standard, then the whole thing could come tumbling down.

Your section of the wall is as important as mine!

Nehemiah was called to build the wall of Jerusalem at the end of the exilic period. The people of Israel were streaming back from all parts of the world to discover the wreck the city had become and when Nehemiah saw it, he went immediately to work rallying the people to build their own section of the wall. That meant each section not only had to stand strong, but be interconnected to the walls being built next to it! Which meant that everyone had to work together, plan together, coordinate together. It was one task with a myriad of workers (and chiefs)...working together.

That's the church...working together on one primary task, mission, and a secondary task, community. We learn to coordinate our efforts with our neighbors, learn to love, trust, depend, lean, hope on our neighbors because our work together is critical for the success of the whole community. One works independently and the whole thing can cave in.

Your section of the wall is as important as mine and vice versa.

You have a wall to build and so do I. It's all a part of the plan of God. And when we do it together, the whole thing stands strong.

Peace ><>
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