when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him."
The inner meaning of this story, is the power of the word, your word which dissolves obstacles, and removes barriers.
When the people shouted the walls fell down.
We find in folk-lore and fairy stories, which come down from legends founded on Truth, the same idea - a word opens a door or cleaves a rock.
We have it again in the Arabian Night's Story, "Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves." I aw it made into a moving picture.
Ali Baba has a secret hiding place, hidden somewhere behind rocks and mountains, the entrance may only be gained by speaking a secret word. -- It is "Open Sesame!"
Ali Baba faces the mountain and cries - "Open Sesame!" and rocks slide apart.
It is very inspiring, for it gives you the realization of how YOUR own rocks and barriers, will part at the right word.
So let us take the statement -- The walls of lack and delay now crumble away, and I enter my Promised Land, under grace.
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