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If you have been reading my blog for at least a month, you will know that the Lord and I are working on setting priorities and boundaries for my life. As I have been working on doing that, the Lord brought a verse before me this morning in church that speaks of boundaries and I wanted to explore the concept that it is teaching a bit.
Proverbs 22: 28 says, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers.”
If we think about this in light of our nation, our forefathers set up boundaries that were embedded in the rock solid principles of the Word of God. God’s presence and His name were ALL over the documents and writings of our forefathers. He was an integral part of this nation when it was founded and I do not think I would be off base to suggest that our forefathers would be appalled at the condition of this country should they be so unfortunate to visit us in this day. God has been taken out of the schools, out of the courthouse, and out of the government and if things do not change, Christians in America will be persecuted for their faith in just a matter of years.
What about our personal boundary stones? What would NEVER have been shown on television or in the movies 50 years ago is paraded across the screen for all to see and hear today. What was kept in the closet because it was sinful and shameful is called an alternative lifestyle today, and you’d better not speak against it or you are considered a bigot. Teen sexual activity and pregnancy was a terrible taboo 50 years ago, but today it is commonplace and the norm. Obedience from a child toward their parent was expected and required, yet today parents are more concerned about being their child’s friend than being their parent, so children are not appropriately disciplined. Having my backside spanked by my Daddy with the “Bolo paddle” when I misbehaved provided a great deal of incentive to stay out of trouble in the future. Not enough children are taught to understand that disobedience brings very unpleasant consequences—and I am not talking about ‘time out’. In my Daddy’s house, ‘time out’ meant how much time it took for him to get the paddle and connect it with my backside!!
Even more personal boundary stones include honesty, hard work, responsibility, and care for others. I fear most people do not comprehend what a problem we have with lying in this country. I read some statistics several years ago that said that over 90% of people who were questioned in a poll admitted to lying on a regular basis. Good grief!
I agree with author Max Lucado’s words on this topic in his book “Just Like Jesus”, He says, “Are you in a dilemma, wondering if you should tell the truth or not? The question to ask in such moments is ‘Will God bless my deceit? Will he, who hates lies, bless a strategy built on lies? Will the Lord, who loves truth, bless the business of falsehoods? Will God honor the career of the manipulator?’……. I don’t think so either.”
I could really go on and on with this but I’m trying so hard to implement something that I learned in the “A Woman Inspired Conference” concerning blogs and online ministry—keep your posts to 5 paragraphs or less because people get weary of reading and we all have short attention spans. Not gonna be able to keep it to “5” in this post. Sorry!
We need to consider our boundary stones—as a nation, as Christians, as individuals. Have they moved from where our forefathers placed them? Yes, they have. What can we do about it? We can pray and we can seek to be people who rebuild the ancient cities and restore the ancient boundary stones.
