Today's Daily Bread
Bless The Boundaries
In all the years I’ve worked with people, I’ve yet to meet someone
whose life was all messed up because he or she kept God’s commands. Yet,
in a day when personal freedom is celebrated as an inalienable right,
talk of conforming our lifestyle to God’s ways is often viewed as an
infringement. And anyone who speaks out in favor of God’s boundaries is
ruled out of bounds. But in this frenzy to be free, it should not go
unnoticed that our society is increasingly marked with a haunting sense
of meaninglessness and despair.
God’s people should have a distinctly different view of boundaries.
Like the psalmist, we must realize that a blessed life comes from
delighting in the law of the Lord (Ps. 1:2)—not in living like those who
“walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take”
(v.1 niv). A believer in Jesus will recognize
that God’s boundaries are not meant to take the pizazz out of life.
Instead, they are divine fences constructed with God’s wisdom to help us
avoid the treachery and trouble of reckless living.
Next time you are tempted to break through God’s boundaries, remember
His loving purpose in putting up fences. Choose to bless God for the
boundaries and for the way they bless you.
What freedom lies with all who choose
To live for God each day!
But chains of bondage shackle those
Who choose some other way. —D. DeHaan
To live for God each day!
But chains of bondage shackle those
Who choose some other way. —D. DeHaan
God’s fences keep you within the bounds of His blessings.
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