Boundaries

Tonight as my husband was mowing our grass, he noticed two of our boys way down the road. Even though they are 15 and almost 13, we have a very small stretch of our road they are allowed to walk on. The reason is this, we live on a 1 lane country road that has many curves and hills and speeding cars. You can't see around the curves or over the hills. In fact, just 2 weeks ago the person that lives at the house that the boys had gotten to, had to put their car into the ditch to avoid being hit by a car speeding over the hill.

 

$3000 worth of damage.

 

Several years ago we saw a car flipped upside down just a few houses down. It was those hills, curves, and speeding cars. We had told the boys a while ago how far they were allowed to go but, as teenage boys, they weren't paying attention. We asked them if they thought we would let them walk the whole road and they said no, that they had determined where they thought we would let them go and didn't go any farther than that.

 

They had decided where the boundaries were.

 

They couldn't understand why that wasn't ok. It's kinda like us with God. God has set boundaries but, in our humanness, we don't listen. Then we make up “religion” with all its rules on what we decide should be the boundaries and wonder why God isn't pleased with us. God is our father and when we listen to Him and pay attention to His boundaries, we stay safe. When we try to do it our own way, we walk right into harms way as Satan is just waiting for us over that hill and around that curve.

 

God knows where the safe boundaries are and has given us a guide for living in the Bible. When we don't follow what He says, we are just asking for trouble. We have to follow the whole Bible, not just pick the parts we want to listen to. God only wants the best for us, just as parents, we only want the best for our children. But just like our children, we have to listen and obey.

 

 We may not always understand the reason but God does and we need to trust Him. Then we will live fully within the safety of God.