walking around the walls

Several pastors here in Salt Lake have formed a prayer accountability group. We meet each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to pray together. Once a year we gather in downtown SLC - the heart of the city - to pray for the city and the people that work and gather in the downtown area. We prayed for each other for about 20 minutes, then we split into teams of two or three and walked around praying for people. My group was assigned to walk around temple square (the city block that hosts the temple, the tablernacle, the assembly hall of the LDS and of course, the temple). In our group there were three of us. As Greg Johnson and I were walking and praying we noticed that Travis was not with us! We turned around to see him annointing a corner of the temple square wall with oil. He had put the sign of the cross on the plaque - blessing the wall - and all the people within those walls to know the truth of the gospel.
So, we each took turns annointing each corner, each plaque, with the sign of the cross. We then annointed the building where the 12 LDS apostles and president Hickley have their offices. (We went on around later and the cross was very visible on each sign!)
Did we feel a little foolish? Yes. Did it seem a little silly? Maybe. We talked about how foolish Gideon and his men felt taking on the Midianites with just vases and trumpets. Yet, the great army was defeated! Or how the Israelites must have felt to march around Jericho with trumpets and shouts, yet the walls feel down!
It felt good to do something a little out of the box - maybe even a little "foolish". Remember, the waters only dried up after the priest's sandals touched the water!
God will get out of His box when we get out of ours.