Inspirational: BOUNDARIES

By: Linda Kirby/ WGON 6.22.26

Have you noticed that there are boundaries everywhere?

Balconies have railings so you don’t step off the edge and fall to your death. Stairways have handrails so you don’t go down the hard way. Traffic lights slow us down so we don’t plow into someone at an intersection.

Everywhere you look, the world has built boundaries — and everyone accepts them as safety measures. No one complains about a railing on the steps. No one argues with a guardrail on a bridge. We understand their purpose: to keep us from harm.

But strangely, those same people reject the boundaries God gives.

In His Word, the Lord sets boundaries to protect us from every kind of danger — spiritual, emotional, moral, and physical. Yet many scoff at them. They mock those who follow them. They treat God’s boundaries as if they are chains instead of safeguards.

Why is that?

Because God’s boundaries do more than protect. They shape, mold, purify, and transform. And the world loves its sin too much to welcome anything that confronts it.

People say, “Sure, I might get hurt… but I probably won’t.” Then they wake up in pain — physically, emotionally, spiritually — and wonder what happened.

Suddenly the boundary they mocked looks wiser than the freedom they chased.

God’s boundaries are not punishment. They are love. They are mercy. They are the rails that keep us from going over the edge in the dark.

And make no mistake — the world is dark. Try navigating a balcony with no railing in pitch blackness. You will find the edge, and the fall will be painful.

Just like the fall in the garden. Pain and suffering followed the moment God’s boundary was crossed. Genesis 2:16–17 (KJV)

“And the LORD God commanded the man… But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it…”

The very first boundary God ever gave — and the first one man broke.

Psalm 16:6 (KJV)

“The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.”

The “lines” were boundary lines — God‑given borders — and David says they are pleasant, not restrictive.

Boundaries are not the enemy. They are the evidence of a God who loves us too much to let us wander off the edge