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The journey from the Mount of Transfiguration to Mount Calvary would take Jesus and His disciples through Jericho. Knowing the mission of His journey, there may well have been discussion of the significance of this city for the people of God. It had been a powerful sign of the power of God. For it was at Jericho the book of Joshua tells us the walls came down. Through what Jesus was about to accomplish on Mount Calvary, greater walls than those of Jericho were about to come tumbling down!

The exchange and healing of Bartimaeus in the city of Jericho was certainly significant for the blind man. He lived with so many walls. He had been living with those walls for a very long time.

Bartimaeus, like those who had marched around Jericho so many years before, trusted God. He trusted Jesus. He believed Jesus could make those walls come down. And when Jesus healed him, he joined all those who would come to know Jesus went to Mount Calvary to break down walls even more significant than those of a city or of blindness. He broke down the walls constructed by sin. He broke down the walls of death.

THE PRAYER: Keep breaking down our walls, Jesus. Amen.