Psalms 16:5-8, Joshua 1:8
Boundaries are established by God to keep his children on the track He has planned and purposed. Obeying God’s commands serves beneficial to believers as we aim to stay within the established boundaries marked out for optimal spiritual and physical development.
Boundaries are established by God to keep his children on the track He has planned and purposed. Obeying God’s commands serves beneficial to believers as we aim to stay within the established boundaries marked out for optimal spiritual and physical development.
When one deliberately steps outside of God’s established boundaries and
loving covering, consequences are sure to follow. Don’t misunderstand God’s
boundaries in your life as punishment or isolation. Boundaries are not negative
but positive reassurances that God wants the best for us as it relates to
position, protection, favor and blessings.
Some believers at one time or another might have experienced someone or
something intentionally seeking to distract and allure them to come up from
underneath God’s loving covering and boundaries only to find disaster on the
other side. God knows what you need before you ask him and he has purposed you
to fulfill his divine will. God’s love protects you and looks out for your best
interest despite your feelings, emotions and circumstance. God’s love is
perfecting all that which concerns you.
God has established loving boundaries for us to follow as it relates
to: friendships, business agreements, conversations, marriage, associations,
relationships, work, teaching, discipline, when someone does you wrong, your
actions, your thoughts and so much more. We as believers are to spend time in
God’s word and prayer as the Holy Spirit reveals deep truths to us regarding
God’s covering and loving boundaries.
The loving boundaries God has established in your life are not to limit
or punish you but to bless and reward you. We are called to listen and
obediently pay attention to God’s commands to love him and serve him with all
of our heart, soul, choices, thoughts and our whole being. (Deuteronomy 11:13).
There is blessing in obedience. When you obey God and respect his love for you,
you are really showing and telling God that you love him.
Don’t mistake God’s commandments, boundaries and covering as
limitations in your life but receive them as his love for blessing and
prospering you.
God comes through in loving you.
Prayer: God, I ask for
forgiveness in classifying your commandments, boundaries and covering as
negative limitations in my life. I know now that your love forever encompasses
me. Thank you for your commands that are established to protect me when I
follow them. I choose to obey you, LORD. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Adapted From: God Comes
Through In Love You Version