Walls, Walls, Walls...Everywhere in Berlin

We arrived safely in Berlin yesterday and have just concluded our first full day in Berlin.  After going to a German/English church service, our team did some sightseeing while learning how to use the bahns (trains).  My highlight was to see the mood of our team change when we actually arrived at 1 of the 3 areas in Berlin where large areas of the Berlin wall is still in tact.  The full reality of what this wall meant sinks in when you see it...

In America, we know foreign language in a book and in a classroom.  We know history in a book and in a classroom...but when it is tangible and in front of you, it actually becomes a reality.  Today the wall became real.

I look at the Berlin Wall and it tells a story of a dark time in history.  It is described that in 1961, almost overnight, the Berlin Wall was constructed to trap those in communist East Berlin from escaping into the freedom that was democratic West Berlin.  However, I think it tells an even bigger and darker story of this city's spirituality.  The enemy has constructed a wall around the hearts of the people, not allowing them to enter the freedom that is in Jesus Christ.  One of the students on the trip (and standing in East Berlin today) said that they felt "weird, different, and that everything just seemed dark".  

On November 9th, 1989 German protesters came into the streets demanding their freedom...that day the Berlin Wall came down.

We are here to be numbered with the few in Berlin crying out for the spiritual Berlin Wall to come down.  Thank you Jesus for being the God who, 

...will break down every high tower
      and every fortified wall.  - Isaiah 2:15

Tomorrow we go on campus.  Pray for walls to come down!