Boundaries

We live 3 miles outside of the village of Epps, Louisiana; just before reaching the main road we pass a fenced cow pasture. We often see cattle that have managed to get through the fence and out into the road. Now I know how ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ became a country western classic.

God created natural boundaries.

“When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth (Proverbs 8:29 KJV).”

I’d guess most tend to rebel against restraints and boundaries.

Yet, a world without restraints would allow man (is his depravity) to perpetrate evils beyond comprehension. I submit to my Savior’s constraints.

“For the love of Christ constraineth us: because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again (2 Corinthians 5:14-15 KJV).”

Admittedly, I was dead in sin. Praise the Lord; he gave me life everlasting!

“But God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)(Ephesians 2:4-5 KJV).”